Ji Zhichang (季芝昌)

Overview

The translated histories identify Ji Zhichang as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Ji Zhichang	季芝昌	Jì Zhīchāng
Personal name	Ji Zhichang	季芝昌	Jì Zhīchāng
Personal name	Ji Zhichang	季芝昌	Ji Zhichang
Personal name	Ji Zhichang	季芝昌
Title	Vice Minister	侍郎
Posthumous name	Wenmin	文敏	Wenmin
Courtesy name	Xianjiu	仙九	Xianjiu
Personal name	Zhichang	芝昌

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0038
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0179, qingshigao:396:s0019

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Place: at home / 於家
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0221

Age

Age: Value: 40 · Reckoning: sui · Comparator: over · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0183

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0213
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0211
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年五月乙巳 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0038, qingshigao:191:s0033
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0210
Source Date: Text: 道光二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1843
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0187
Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0196
Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1848
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0188
Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年至二十九年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1848 · End: AD 1849
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:396:s0014, qingshigao:396:s0019, qingshigao:396:s0021
Source Date: Text: 道光十九年 · Western Year: AD 1839
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0185
Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0183

Family

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Ancestor of Bangzhen (邦楨)
Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2
Child of Ji Lin (季麟)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Ji Zhichang (季芝昌母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Parent of Nianyi (念詒)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Han / 漢
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0038

Career and standing

Label: governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang / 閩浙總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0211
Label: left censor-in-chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0210
Label: Vice Minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0019
Label: Han Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年五月乙巳 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0038, qingshigao:191:s0033

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0179
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0038
Place: Jiangyin in Jiangsu / 江蘇江陰
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0179

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi third in first class / 一甲三名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0183

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · About: Changlu salt reform · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1848
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0188, qingshigao:375:s0189, qingshigao:375:s0190, qingshigao:375:s0191, qingshigao:375:s0192, qingshigao:375:s0193, qingshigao:375:s0194

Events and relationships

Kind: administrative · Role: auditor · Action: audited Zhejiang salt administration with Wu Wenrong · Other Person Id: Wu Wenrong (吳文鎔)
Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0019
Kind: inspection · Role: commissioner · Action: inspected Zhejiang salt and granaries · Other Person Id: Qiying (耆英) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0196, qingshigao:375:s0197, qingshigao:375:s0198
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed boat bandits · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0212
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年五月乙巳 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0038

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 191Volume 191 Tables 31: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 7 Lower · 1 passage

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季芝昌五月乙巳遷。朱鳳標左都御史。 On the yisi day of the fifth month, 季芝昌 was transferred. 朱鳳標: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 6 passages

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季芝昌，字仙九，江蘇江陰人。 Ji Zhichang, styled Xianjiu, came from Jiangyin in Jiangsu.

芝昌年逾四十，成道光十二年一甲三名進士，授編修，散館第一。 Zhichang was over forty when he ranked third among the top three jinshi graduates in 1832. He was appointed compiler and ranked first upon leaving the Hanlin Academy.

耆英病留清江浦，芝昌獨赴浙江，疏陳變通鹽務章程七事：杭、嘉、紹三所引鹽，分別加斤，止令完交正課； Qiying fell ill and remained at Qingjiangpu. Zhichang went alone to Zhejiang and memorialized seven reforms to salt regulations: for salt under transport permits from the Hang, Jia, and Shao offices, add weight separately and require only regular tax payment.

芝昌以文字受宣宗特達之知，嘗曰：「汝為文，行所無事，譬之於射，五矢無一失。」 Zhichang won the Xuanzong Emperor's exceptional favor through his writing. The emperor once said: "When you write, you proceed without obstruction, like shooting—five arrows, not one miss."

光緒初，署閩浙總督文煜奏陳政績，追諡文敏。 In the early Guangxu reign, Acting Governor-General Wen Yu memorialized his achievements, and the posthumous name Wenmin was granted.

季芝昌晚遭殊遇，已值宣宗倦勤之年，暫任兼圻，奉身而退，其見幾知止者耶？ Ji Zhichang encountered exceptional favor late in life, already when the Xuanzong Emperor was weary of governing. He briefly held concurrent provincial command, then withdrew from office—was this one who saw the moment and knew when to stop?

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 1 passage

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未幾，命偕侍郎季芝昌清查浙江鹽務，奏籌變通章程以專責成，除浮費為要務，鹽課日有起色。 Before long he was ordered to accompany Vice Minister Ji Zhichang in auditing Zhejiang salt administration; he memorialized plans for revised regulations to fix responsibility, making elimination of unnecessary expenses the chief priority, and salt revenue steadily improved.