Overview
The translated histories identify Kuai Tong as a named individual, scholar, strategist, and writer. This record brings together 8 passages from 4 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Kuai Tong | 蒯通 | Kuǎi Tōng |
| Personal | |||
| Personal | Kuai Tong | 蒯通 | Kuai Tong |
| Personal name | Kuai Tong | 蒯通 | Kuai Tong |
| Given | Tong | 通 | Tong |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · shiji:080:s0119
- Sex: maleExplicit · shiji:094:s0056
Roles
- Named Individual
- Scholar
- Strategist
- Writer
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 用蒯通計 · Western Year: BC 204Explicit event contextual date · shiji:094:s0056, shiji:094:s0090
- Source Date: Text: 陳涉起 · Western Year: BC 209Explicit event contextual date · hanshu:041:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 齊之蒯通...讀樂毅之報燕王書 · Western Year: BC 200Explicit event contextual date · shiji:080:s0119
Places and affiliations
- Place: Fanyang / 范陽Explicit · hanshu:041:s0038
Learning and skills
- Skill: persuasive rhetoric / 長短說 · Level: renownedExplicit · shiji:094:s0091
Works and attributed material
- Work: Eighty-one essays on Warring States power shifts / 論戰國之權變八十一首 · Relation: authorExplicit · shiji:094:s0091
- Work: biography of Kuai Tong / 通傳 · Relation: subject-ofExplicit · hanshu:041:s0039
Events and relationships
- Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: advised-Han-Xin-to-attack-Qi · Other Person Id: Han Xin (韓信)Explicit · shiji:094:s0056
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: persuader · Action: persuaded Fanyang to surrender · Other Person Id: Xu Gong (徐公)Explicit · hanshu:041:s0038
- Explicit · shiji:080:s0119
- Relation: friend-of · Person Id: An Qisheng (安期生)Explicit · shiji:094:s0092
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: scheming threw Qi into turmoil and ruined related fortunes · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Sima Qian (太史公)Explicit · shiji:094:s0090
References in the histories
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