Qing · Official

Li Tangjie 李棠階

Died AD 1865

Passages
21
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Tangjie as an official, scholar, statesman, and teacher. This record brings together 21 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Li Tangjie 李棠階 Li Tangjie
Alternate Tangjie 棠階 Tangjie
Posthumous Wenqing 文清 Wenqing
Style Wenyuan 文園 Wenyuan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman
  • Teacher

Life and dates

Death

  • Cause: illness from accumulated labor · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治四年十一月 · Western Year: AD 1865 · Age: 68
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0119

Age

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年七月庚子 · Western Year: AD 1862
    Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0033, qingshigao:193:s0038
  • Office: Hanlin compiler · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1822 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0075
  • Office: Hanlin reader · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1822 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0076
  • Office: Guangdong education commissioner · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1842 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0077
  • Office: vice president of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1842 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0077
  • Office: acting minister of revenue · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0099
  • Office: Grand Council minister · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0105
  • Office: left censor-in-chief · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0099
  • Office: president of the Court of Judicial Review · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0095
  • Office: vice minister of Rites · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0099
  • Office: Minister of Works · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1863 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0106
  • Office: Minister of Rites · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1864 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0111
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年二月乙酉 · Western Year: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0044, qingshigao:193:s0049
  • Honor: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: added after Jiangning recovered · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1864 · Source Date: Text: 同治三年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0107
  • Honor: fourth-grade chamberlain rank and peacock feather · Action: granted for Hebei service
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0086
  • Honor: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: posthumously granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0120
  • Status: illness retirement at home · Action: entered
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0078, qingshigao:391:s0080
  • Action: demoted three ranks and transferred for examination irregularities · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1842 · Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0078

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: plain, practical, and combining substance with application · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0202
  • Kind: self-discipline · Statement: kept a diary of self-examination and remained frugal despite high rank
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0123, qingshigao:391:s0124

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 193Volume 193 Tables 33: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 8 Lower · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 19 passages
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