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Jiang Zhan 江湛

Jiāng Zhàn

Died AD 453

Passages
41
Chapters
4
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Jiang Zhan as an administrator, named individual, official, and scholar. This record brings together 41 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Jiang Zhan 江湛 Jiāng Zhàn
Posthumous Duke of Loyal Simplicity 忠簡公
Courtesy Huiyuan 徽淵 Huīyuān
Surname Jiang
Personal name Jiang Zhan 江湛 Jiāng Zhàn
Personal Jiang Zhan 江湛
Title Minister of Personnel 吏部尚書
Personal name Zhan Zhàn
Given Zhan
Alternate Zhouling 州陵
Surname
Given

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Named Individual
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: killed · Cause: seized and killed by Liu Shao · Age: 46 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十五年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 25 · Western Year: AD 448
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0144
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0146
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0163, songshu:071:s0167
  • Source Date: Text: 元嘉中 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · liangshu:007:s0023, liangshu:007:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:071:s0170
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 424 · End: AD 453 · Source Date: Text: 吏部尚書江湛舉微為吏部郎,微與湛
    Explicit · songshu:062:s0097
  • Source Date: Text: 淑及徐湛之、江湛、王僧綽、卜天與四家 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit event contextual date · songshu:070:s0111, songshu:070:s0113

Family

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  • Child of Jiang Yi (江夷)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Jiang Fashou (江法壽)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Jiang Ren (江恁)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Jiang Xun (江愻)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Jiang Cong (江憼)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Jiang Shu (江恕)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Third Daughter of Jiang Zhan (江湛第三女)
    Kinship Term: third daughter / 第三女 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: daughter · Object Birth Order: 3
  • Sibling of Sister of Jiang Zhan (江湛妹)
    Kinship Term: younger sister / 妹 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder · Subject Role: elder-brother · Object Role: younger-sister

Career and standing

  • Label: Palace Attendant / 侍中 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十五年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 25 · Western Year: AD 448
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0144
  • Label: Director of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0146
  • Label: Minister of the Civil Service / 吏部尚書 · Action: held
    Explicit · liangshu:007:s0023
  • Title: Left Household Grandee / 左光祿大夫 · Action: posthumous · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 世祖即位 · Western Year: AD 453
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0170

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: victim · Action: killed after Shao's regicide · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉三十年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 30 · Western Year: AD 453
  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: opponent · Action: opposed marriage alliance with Northern Wei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0153
  • Kind: personal · Role: refuser · Action: refused Tan Daoji marriage request for sister · Other Person Id: Tan Daoji (檀道濟)
  • Kind: military · Role: advisor · Action: supported northern campaign · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 元嘉二十七年 · Reign Id: liu-song-yuanjia · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 450
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0151

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: fair and incorruptible in personnel selection · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0150
  • Assessment: filial in mourning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshu:071:s0135

Source notes

References in the histories

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Book of Liang, Chapter 7Volume 7: Empresses · 3 passages
Book of Song, Chapter 62Volume 62 Biographies 22: Yang Xin, Zhang Fu, Wang Wei · 6 passages
Book of Song, Chapter 70Volume 70 Biographies 30: Yuan Shu · 1 passage
Book of Song, Chapter 71Volume 71 Biographies 31: Xu Zhan, Jiang Zhan, Wang Sengchao · 31 passages