Li Kui 李揆

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0001

Roles

• Envoy
• Historian
• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman

Family

• Descendant of Li Xuantao (李玄道)
  Kinship Term: great-great-grandson / 玄孫 · Generation Distance: 4 · Line: paternal
• Child of Li Chengyu (李成裕)
  Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

• Kinship Role: elder brothers · Count: 2 · Note: plural elder brothers with contemporary reputations
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0033

Origins and identity

• Label: foremost lineages of the age / 冠族
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0001

Career and standing

• Label: compiler of the national history / 修國史
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0011
• Label: vice director of the Secretariat and chief minister / 中書侍郎、平章事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾元初 · Western Year: AD 758
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0011
• Label: vice minister of rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾元初 · Western Year: AD 758
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0008
• Label: assistant magistrate of Chenliu / 陳留尉 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開元末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 740 · End: AD 741
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0004
• Label: Right Reminder / 右拾遺 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開元末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 740 · End: AD 741
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0004
• Label: acting director of the Secretariat / 試秘書監 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0042
• Label: chancellor of the National University / 國子祭酒 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0045
• Label: director in the Bureau of Evaluations / 考功郎中 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0006
• Label: drafting secretary of the Secretariat / 中書舍人 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0007
• Label: envoy to Tibet for the alliance conference / 入蕃會盟使 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0046
• Label: grand academician of the Hall of Assembled Worthies and Chongwen Pavilion / 集賢殿崇文館大學士 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0011
• Label: Imperial Diarist / 起居郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0005
• Label: minister of rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0045
• Label: prefect of Muzhou / 睦州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0045
• Label: prefect of Shezhou / 歙州刺史 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0038
• Label: Right Supplementation Censor / 右補闕 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0005
• Label: vice director in the Bureau of Merits / 司勛員外郎 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0006
• Title: Grand Marshal / 司空 · Action: posthumously-granted
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0048
• Title: Left Vice Director of the Department of State Affairs / 左僕射 · Action: held
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0046
• Status: demotion · Action: entered · Label: senior adjutant of Laizhou / 萊州長史同正員
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0036

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Tang / 唐 · Relation: served
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0004
• Place: Chengji in Longxi / 隴西成紀 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0001
• Place: Jiang-Huai / 江淮 · Relation: sojourned-in
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0042, jiutangshu:130:s0044
• Place: Zhengzhou / 鄭州 · Relation: resided-at
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0001

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 開元末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 740 · End: AD 741
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0004

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0028, jiutangshu:130:s0029, jiutangshu:130:s0030
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Emperor Suzong (肅宗)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0016, jiutangshu:130:s0017, jiutangshu:130:s0018, jiutangshu:130:s0019
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0010

Events and relationships

• Kind: political · Role: counselor · Action: opposed Empress Zhang honorific Assisting Sage · Other Person Id: Empress Zhang (張皇后)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0015, jiutangshu:130:s0021
• Kind: political · Role: counselor · Action: supported naming Prince of Cheng as heir · Other Person Id: Emperor Daizong (代宗)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0023, jiutangshu:130:s0025
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Lu Qi (盧杞)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0045
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Yuan Zai (元載)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0040, jiutangshu:130:s0041
• Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Lü Yin (呂諲)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0034, jiutangshu:130:s0035

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: blocked the worthy to hold office; not an admirable man · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0209, jiutangshu:130:s0210
• Assessment: keen for fame and profit; criticized by public opinion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0032
• Assessment: three unrivaled gifts in lineage, person, and writings · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Emperor Suzong (肅宗)
  Explicit · jiutangshu:130:s0013, jiutangshu:130:s0014