Huang Zunxian (黃遵憲)

Overview

The translated histories identify Huang Zunxian as a diplomat, official, poet, and writer. This record brings together 5 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Huang Zunxian	黃遵憲	Huang Zunxian
Courtesy name	Gongdu	公度	Gongdu
Surname	Huang	黃	Huang
Personal name	Huang Zunxian	黃遵憲	Huang Zunxian
Given name	Zunxian	遵憲	Zunxian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Diplomat
Official
Poet
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Career and standing

Label: Attaché to Japan / 使日參贊 · Action: appointed
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Label: Consul-general at San Francisco / 舊金山總領事 · Action: appointed
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Label: Acting judicial commissioner / 署按察使 · Action: held
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Label: Salt controller of Changbao Circuit / 長寶鹽法道 · Action: held
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Label: Circuit intendant / 道員 · Action: purchased
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Status: dismissed · Action: imposed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Jiaying Prefecture / 嘉應州
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Place: Japan / 日本 · Relation: posted-to
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Place: San Francisco / 舊金山 · Relation: posted-to
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Learning and skills

Credential: Provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: held
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Works and attributed material

Work: Record of Japan / 日本國誌 · Relation: author
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Work: Renjinglu Shicao / 人境廬詩草 · Relation: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
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Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: advocate · Action: secured-release-of-jailed-Chinese-in-San-Francisco
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 464Volume 464 Biographies 251: Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijingzi, Ren Zhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Ceng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong With: Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, Kang Guangren · 5 passages

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李端棻徐致靖子仁鑄陳寶箴黃遵憲曾鉌楊深秀楊銳劉光第譚嗣同唐才常林旭康廣仁李端棻，字苾園，貴州貴筑人。 Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijing, his son Renzhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Zeng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, and Kang Guangren. Li Duanfen, whose courtesy name was Biyuan, came from Guizhu in Guizhou.

未幾，詔果求通才，於是致靖奏有為堪大用，並及梁啟超、黃遵憲等。 Soon an edict did call for broadly talented men; Zhijing then reported that Kang Youwei was fit for high office, and also named Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and others.

黃遵憲，字公度，嘉應州人。 Huang Zunxian, whose courtesy name was Gongdu, came from Jiaying Prefecture.

徑詣獄中，令從者度其容積，曰：「此處衛生顧右於僑居邪？」 Zunxian went straight to the jail and had his attendants measure its space, saying, "Is sanitation really better here than where the Chinese live?"

時寶箴為巡撫，行新政，遵憲首倡民治於眾曰：「亦自治其身，自治其鄉而已。 Chen Baozhen was then governor and pursuing reforms; Zunxian first preached popular self-government to the people, saying: "It means governing yourself and governing your own township.