Li Zongchuan (李宗傳)

Overview

The translated histories identify Li Zongchuan as an administrator, official, and writer. This record brings together 7 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Li Zongchuan	李宗傳	Li Zongchuan
Surname	Li	李	Li
Personal name	Li Zongchuan	李宗傳	Li Zongchuan
Courtesy name	Xiaozeng	孝曾	Xiaozeng
Given	Zongchuan	宗傳	Zongchuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0040

Roles

Administrator
Official
Writer

Life and dates

Age

Age: 70 · Reckoning: sui-or-years · Statement: 年逾七十
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0056

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0047
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶三年 · Western Year: AD 1798
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Source Date: Text: 道光三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
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Career and standing

Label: magistrate of Shangyu / 上虞知縣 · Action: appointed
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Label: prefect of Yongzhou / 湖南永州 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0045
Label: grain intendant of Zhejiang / 浙江督糧道 · Action: promoted
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Label: intendant of Cheng-Mian-Long-Mao circuit / 成綿龍茂道 · Action: promoted
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Label: provincial judge of Shandong / 山東按察使 · Action: promoted
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Label: provincial treasurer of Hubei / 湖北布政使 · Action: transferred
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Status: retirement · Action: entered
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Status: demotion · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0045

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0041
Place: Tongcheng, Anhui / 安徽桐城
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0040

Learning and skills

Credential: provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶三年 · Western Year: AD 1798
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Skill: essay writing / 文章 · Level: capable
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0058

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0048, qingshigao:384:s0049, qingshigao:384:s0050

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: executed-Liu-Eranzi · Other Person Id: Liu Er'anzi (劉二鞍子)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0055
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: pacified-Yi · Place: Sichuan frontier / 川邊 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0051, qingshigao:384:s0052, qingshigao:384:s0053
Kind: hydraulic · Role: proposer · Action: proposed-joint-Jiang-Zhe-dredging · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光三年 · Western Year: AD 1823
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Relation: student-of · Person Id: Yao Nai (姚鼐)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: pacified Yi by expedient measures; merit on the frontier · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: uneasy that stratagems harmed benevolence · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0057

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 7 passages

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李宗傳，字孝曾，安徽桐城人。 Li Zongchuan, whose style was Xiaozeng, came from Tongcheng in Anhui.

道光三年，杭、嘉、湖三府大水，宗傳建議，浙西諸水尾閭，下由江蘇入海，必宜江、浙兩省通籌疏濬，大吏用其言，疏請合治。 When Hang, Jia, and Hu were devastated by flood in the third year of Daoguang, Zongchuan argued that the lower reaches of western Zhejiang's rivers, which discharge through Jiangsu into the sea, had to be dredged through coordinated planning by both provinces; the senior officials accepted his plan and memorialized for joint works.

十三年，瓘邊屬倮夷降复叛，勢甚張，總督鄂山既奏劾提督楊芳，檄宗傳往察治。 In the thirteenth year the Luo Yi on the Qian frontier, having submitted, rebelled again with great force; Governor-General E Shan had already impeached Regional Commander Yang Fang and dispatched Zongchuan to investigate and settle the matter.

宗傳上言：「四廳夷環山為巢，嗜利頑鈍，愈撫愈囂。 Zongchuan memorialized: "The Yi of the four subprefectures have their lairs in the surrounding mountains; greedy and obstinate, they grow bolder the more one tries to appease them.

三路大軍猶未至，宗傳先以計誘降十三支夷，縶之，勒還所掠人口，有業者復之，無業者給貲，縱俘歸，使諭威德。 Before the three armies even arrived, Zongchuan by stratagem induced thirteen Yi bands to surrender, seized their leaders, forced the return of captives, restored lands to those who had property, compensated those who did not, and sent prisoners home to spread word of imperial power and mercy.

宗傳徵叛夷出奇有功，然居恆時以計取傷仁，意不自慊。 Zongchuan won distinction against the rebellious Yi through bold stratagems, yet he was uneasy at heart because his usual reliance on cunning often cut against humane conduct.

李宗傳便宜平夷，功在邊方。 Li Zongchuan pacified the Yi by flexible measures, and his merit lay on the frontier.