Song, Liao, and Jin · Official and Statesman

Li Gang 李綱

Died AD 1140

Passages
25
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Gang as an official, scholar, statesman, and writer. This record brings together 25 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Gang 李綱 Li Gang
Given Gang 綱 Gang
Surname Li 李 Li
Personal name Li Gang 李綱 Li Gang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1140 · Age At Death: Value: 58 · Reckoning: sui
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0214

Age

  • Value: 58 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1140
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0214

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1139
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0208
  • Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1135
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1138
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0184
  • Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1136
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0155
  • Source Date: Text: 四年冬 · Western Year: AD 1134
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0008
  • Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1140
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0214, songshi:359:s0208
  • Source Date: Text: 渡江後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1127 · End: AD 1130
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:197:s0230, songshi:197:s0231
  • Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit event contextual date · songshi:359:s0002

Family

  • Kinship Role: relatives · Count: 10 · Note: ten kin granted official posts
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0216

Career and standing

  • Label: Prefect of Hongzhou / 知洪州 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1135
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0153, songshi:359:s0022
  • Label: Prefect of Tanzhou / 知潭州 · Action: appointed · Concurrent: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0002
  • Label: Grand Commissioner for Pacification of Jinghu South Circuit / 荊湖南路安撫大使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1139
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0208
  • Label: Prefect of Tanzhou / 知潭州 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1139
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0208
  • Label: Grand Commissioner for Pacification and Military Affairs of Jiangxi / 江西安撫制置大使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1135
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0153, songshi:359:s0022
  • Label: Academician of the Hall for Viewing Literature / 觀文殿學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0002
  • Label: Commissioner for Pacification of Huguang / 湖廣宣撫使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0002
  • Label: Director of the Chongfu Palace in the Western Capital / 提舉西京崇福宮 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0007
  • Label: Chancellor / 相 · Action: held · Note: barely seventy days
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0224
  • Label: Junior Preceptor / 少師 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1140
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0216, songshi:359:s0214
  • Label: edict of praise / 賜詔褒諭 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1135
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0152, songshi:359:s0022
  • Status: dismissal · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0007

Places and affiliations

  • Place: Hongzhou / 洪州 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1135
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0153, songshi:359:s0022
  • Place: Tanzhou / 潭州 · Relation: posted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 紹興二年 · Western Year: AD 1132
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0002

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: bore the hopes of the empire; loyalty stirred awe near and far · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0217, songshi:359:s0218
  • Assessment: feared and respected among distant foes together with Zhao Ding · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0219
  • Assessment: loyalty like an infant clinging to its mother; devotion not less than Zhuge Kongming's · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0225, songshi:359:s0226
  • Assessment: worthy; had he been unobstructed in Jingkang–Jianyan, the Two Sovereigns need not have gone north · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0221
  • Assessment: Zhang Jun sincerely devoted to the state despite errors; deserve leniency · Other Person Id: Zhang Jun (張浚) · Provenance: Mode: speaker-attribution · Speaker Person Id: Li Gang (李綱)
    Explicit · songshi:359:s0168, songshi:359:s0169

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 197Volume 197 Treatises 150: Military 11 · 1 passage
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History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 24 passages
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綱奏乞益飭戰守之具，修築沿淮城壘，且言：「願陛下勿以去冬驟勝而自怠，勿以目前粗定而自安，凡可以致中興之治者無不為，凡可以害中興之業者無不去。 Li Gang memorialized asking that equipment for battle and defense be further strengthened and fortifications built along the Huai, and said: "I pray Your Majesty will not grow lax after last winter's sudden victories, nor grow complacent because the frontier is roughly stable — do everything that can advance restoration, and remove everything that can harm it.
綱有著《易傳》內篇十卷、外篇十二卷，《論語詳說》十卷，文章、歌詩、奏議百餘卷，又有《靖康傳信錄》、《奉迎錄》、《建炎時政記》、《建炎進退志》、《建炎制詔表劄集》、《宣撫荊廣記》、《制置江右錄》。 Li Gang authored the Inner Chapters of his Commentary on the Changes in ten volumes and the Outer Chapters in twelve, Detailed Expositions on the Analects in ten volumes, and more than a hundred volumes of essays, poems, and memorials, as well as Records of Trust in the Jingkang Crisis, Records of the Imperial Welcome, Records of Jianyan Government, Records of Advance and Retreat in the Jianyan Era, Collected Jianyan Edicts and Memorials, Records of Pacification in Jing and Guang, and Records of Military Affairs in Jiang Right.