Liu Guangdi (劉光第)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Guangdi as an official, scholar, and writer. This record brings together 14 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Guangdi	劉光第	Liu Guangdi
Given name	Guangdi	光第	Guangdi
Surname	Liu	劉	Liu
Personal name	Liu Guangdi	劉光第	Liu Guangdi
Courtesy name	Peicun	裴村	Peicun

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Scholar
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Manner: execution
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Source Date: Text: 光緒九年 · Western Year: AD 1883
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Career and standing

Label: Fourth-rank ministerial title / Grand Council secretary / 四品卿軍機章京 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Label: Ministry of Punishments secretary / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed
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Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Fushun, Sichuan / 四川富順
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
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Skill: Rites scholarship / 周官禮及大小戴禮記 · Level: versed
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Works and attributed material

Work: Jiebaitang shiwenji / 介白堂詩文集 · Relation: author
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Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: victim · Action: surrendered-and-executed
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Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Yang Rui (楊銳)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: incorruptible · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
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Statement: One of the Six Gentlemen executed the same day · Label: Six Gentlemen / 六君子
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 464Volume 464 Biographies 251: Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijingzi, Ren Zhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Ceng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong With: Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, Kang Guangren · 13 passages

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李端棻徐致靖子仁鑄陳寶箴黃遵憲曾鉌楊深秀楊銳劉光第譚嗣同唐才常林旭康廣仁李端棻，字苾園，貴州貴筑人。 Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijing, his son Renzhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Zeng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, and Kang Guangren. Li Duanfen, whose courtesy name was Biyuan, came from Guizhu in Guizhou.

寶箴素慕曾、胡薦士，因上言楊銳、劉光第、譚嗣同、林旭佐新政。 Baozhen had long admired how Zeng Guofan and Hu Linyi recommended men, and therefore memorialized that Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, and Lin Xu should assist the new policies.

又以陳寶箴薦，與劉光第、譚嗣同、林旭並加四品卿，充軍機章京，參新政。 Again through Chen Baozhen’s recommendation, he, together with Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, and Lin Xu, was given fourth-rank ministerial title, appointed a Grand Council secretary, and took part in the new policies.

爾與劉光弟、譚嗣同、林旭等詳悉籌議，必如何而後能進用英達，使新政及時舉行，又不致少拂聖意，即具奏，候朕審擇，不勝焦慮之至！」 You, together with Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, Lin Xu, and the others, must deliberate carefully on how to advance able men so that the new policies may proceed in good time without the least offense to the Empress Dowager's wishes. Memorialize at once for my review. My anxiety is beyond words!"

銳既下獄，自揣實無罪，謂即訊不難白，次日，遽詔與光第等同棄市。 Once imprisoned, Rui believed himself innocent and thought he could easily clear his name under interrogation, but the next day an edict suddenly ordered him executed in the marketplace together with Guangdi and the others.

劉光第，字裴村，四川富順人。 Liu Guangdi, whose courtesy name was Peicun, came from Fushun in Sichuan.

惟時言路宏啟，臣民奏事日數百計，竟日批答，簽識可否，以待上裁。 Memorial channels were then wide open, with hundreds of submissions arriving daily; Guangdi spent entire days drafting replies and marking what should stand or fall, all for the emperor's final ruling.

未一月而禍作，光第自投獄。 Less than a month later the disaster broke out, and Guangdi surrendered himself to prison.

臨刑，協辦大學士剛毅監斬，光第詫曰：「未訊而誅，何哉？」 At the execution, Associate Grand Secretary Gangyi supervised the beheading, and Guangdi cried out in astonishment, "To execute a man without trial--why?"

令跪聽旨，光第不可，曰：「祖制，雖盜賊，臨刑呼冤，當復訊。 He was ordered to kneel and hear the edict; Guangdi refused, saying, "By ancestral law, even a thief who cries injustice at execution must be interrogated again.

獄卒強之跪，光第崛立自如。 The jailers tried to force him to his knees, but Guangdi stood straight and unmoved.