Huang Kezuan 黃克纘

Other names

Career and standing

• assistant department director in the Ministry of Justice 刑部員外郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 46
• Grand Coordinator of Shandong 巡撫山東
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 47
• Minister of War assisting military administration 兵部尚書協理戎政
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 83
• overseer of capital-garrison military administration 京營戎政
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 54
• prefect of Shouzhou 壽州知州
  Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 46
• Left Administrative Commissioner of Shandong 山東左布政使
  Held
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 47

Places and affiliations

• Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passages 44, 54, 82, 101
• Polity Ming 明 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · History of Ming 256, passage 275
• At Jinjiang 晉江
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 44
• AD 1612 四十年
  At Nanjing 南京 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 50
• At Shandong 山東 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 47
• At Shouzhou 壽州 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 46

Learning and skills

• Earned
  AD 1580 萬歷八年 · Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 45

Works and attributed material

• Essentials Canon 要典
  Relation Credited as leading contributor
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 95
• Memorialized on current affairs after Longde Hall fire
  AD 1616 四十四年冬 · Memorial · Author
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 52
• Speech · Speaker · Extent s0058, s0059 · Mode quotation Speaker Huang Kezuan (黃克纘)
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passages 58-59
• Memorial · Author · Extent s0066, s0067, s0068 · Mode quotation Speaker Huang Kezuan (黃克纘)
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passages 66-68
• Memorial · Author · Extent s0071, s0072, s0073, s0074, s0075 · Mode quotation Speaker Huang Kezuan (黃克纘)
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passages 71-75
• Historian appraisal · Subject · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 275

Events and relationships

• Acknowledged guilt
  Political · Subject
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 77
• Again asked to retire
  Political · Petitioner
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 81
• Again pleaded illness and returned home
  Personal · Subject
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 99
• Asked to resign
  Political · Petitioner
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 70
• Assumed Nanjing post after three years
  Career · Officeholder
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 51
• driving out Eastern Forest 排東林
  Political · Credited leader · Credited with leading merit in purge
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 95

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment destroyed moral order, clung to private friendships, ignored great principle · Mode quotation Speaker Xue Wenzhou (薛文周)
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 85
• Assessment first to voice that the emperor treated late-reign consorts harshly · Mode rumor
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 61
• Assessment other benevolent policies were very notable · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 48
• Assessment shunned by the Eastern Forest yet simply refused to join it · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 275
• Assessment upright, forceful, and principled · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 93

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passages 44, 54, 275
• Memorial received no court reply
  不報
  Directly stated · History of Ming 256, passage 53