Qing · Official and Minister of Punishments

Jiang Cheng 姜晟

Attested AD 1766 - AD 1806

Passages
16
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Cheng as an administrator, judge, and official. This record brings together 16 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodQing

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jiang Cheng 姜晟 Jiang Cheng
Given Cheng 晟
Courtesy name Guangyu 光宇 Guangyu
Surname Jiang 姜
Personal name Jiang Cheng 姜晟 Jiang Cheng

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Judge
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0034
  • Label: acting vice minister of revenue / 署戶部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0040
  • Label: principal secretary, Ministry of Punishments / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0004
  • Label: acting governor-general / 兼署總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1797
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0022
  • Label: governor of Hubei / 湖北巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十二年 · Western Year: AD 1787
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0008
  • Label: governor of Hunan / 湖南巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十六年 · Western Year: AD 1791
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0012
  • Label: governor-general / 總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0030
  • Label: Jiangxi provincial judicial commissioner / 江西按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十四年 · Western Year: AD 1779
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0006
  • Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1780
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0007
  • Label: acting governor of Jiangxi / 暫署巡撫 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0038
  • Label: minister of punishments / 刑部尚書 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0041
  • Label: vice minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 光祿寺少卿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0005
  • Label: fourth-rank capital official / 四品京堂 · Action: demoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0045
  • Label: governor-general rank / 總督銜 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0020
  • Label: director, Ministry of Punishments / 郎中 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0004
  • Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十三年 · Western Year: AD 1788
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0011
  • Label: governor-general of Zhili / 直隸總督 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0030
  • Label: Ministry of Works / 工部 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0043
  • Label: Court of the Imperial Stud / 太僕寺 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0005
  • Label: merit citation / 議敘 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十二年 · Western Year: AD 1787
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0009
  • Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0029
  • Label: exceptional merit citation / 優敘 · Action: granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0018
  • Status: retired-convalescent · Action: left-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0044
  • Status: failure-of-supervision · Action: liable-then-spared · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0028
  • Status: stripped-of-insignia · Action: punished · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十三年 · Western Year: AD 1788
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0010
  • Status: stripped-arrested-river-works · Action: punished · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0032

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0004

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0040

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: clear and careful in criminal cases; thrice assistant minister of punishments · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0035
  • Assessment: kept his hands clean but failed to impeach Heshen from fear · Provenance: Mode: edict
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0027
  • Assessment: served widely in capital and provinces with administrative achievements · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0164

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 16 passages
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詔「晟平日居官猶能自守，因畏和珅不敢參劾，尚非通同舞弊」，命逮訊源鸘，籍其貲財，澈底根究，具得源鸘加扣平餘、蓄養優伶、眷屬多至三百人諸罪狀，論大辟； The throne ruled that "Cheng had generally kept his hands clean but, fearing Heshen, had failed to denounce him—yet this was not treated as outright collusion." Yuanluan was arrested, his goods confiscated, and a full inquiry pursued. He was found guilty of skimming surplus grain accounts, keeping a troupe of actors, and maintaining a household of nearly three hundred dependents, and was sentenced to death.