Qing · Official

Liu Zao 劉藻

Died AD 1766

Passages
14
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Zao as an administrator, official, and scholar. This record brings together 14 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 Liu Zao 劉藻 Liu Zao
Surname Liu 劉 Liu
Personal Liu Zao 劉藻
Courtesy Sucun 素存 Sucun
Changed Yulin 玉麟 Yulin
Given Zao 藻 Zao

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official
  • Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Mother of Liu Zao
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Reviser in the Hanlin Academy / 檢討 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆元年 · Western Year: AD 1736
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0002
  • Label: Financial Commissioner of Shaanxi / 陝西布政使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1756
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0017
  • Label: Governor-General of Yunnan and Guizhou / 雲貴總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1764
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0020
  • Label: Governor of Yunnan / 雲南巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1757
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0018
  • Label: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1741
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0009
  • Label: Educational commissioner of Jiangsu / 江蘇學政 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0010
  • Label: Instructor at Guancheng / 觀城教諭 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0002
  • Label: Left Assistant Censor-in-Chief / 左僉都御史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0003
  • Label: Vice Commissioner of the Court of Transmission / 通政使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0008
  • Label: Governor of Guizhou / 貴州巡撫 · Action: concurrent
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0019
  • Label: Governor of Hubei / 湖北巡撫 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0032
  • Label: Vice Director of the Court of the Imperial Clan / 宗人府府丞 · Action: demoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0011
  • Label: Governor-General of Huguang / 湖廣總督 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1766
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0024
  • Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0019
  • Status: leave-to-care-for-parent · Action: requested
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0014
  • Label: forbidden to erect career stele / 不得聽其家立碑書歷官事實 · Action: imposed · Authority Person Id: Gaozong (高宗)
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0038

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Erudite Learning and Polished Composition (Boxue Hongci), first class / 博學鴻詞一等 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆元年 · Western Year: AD 1736
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0002
  • Credential: Recommended Man (juren) / 舉人 · Action: earned
    Explicit · qingshigao:327:s0002

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

Source notes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 327Volume 327 Biographies 114: Liu Zao, Yang Yingju, Yang Zhongying, Su Erxiang, Ming Rui · 13 passages
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藻居揚州候代，有吳之黼者，以文求教，藻行，饋糟魚，受之，中途發視，得白金四百，藻畀兩淮運使硃續晫還之黼。 While Zao was staying in Yangzhou awaiting reassignment, a man named Wu Zhifu sought his instruction in literature. When Zao set out on his journey, Zhifu presented pickled fish as a gift; he accepted it, but on the road opened it and found four hundred taels of silver inside. Zao entrusted the money to the Lianghuai grain transport commissioner Zhu Xuzhe to return it to Zhifu.
會大學士張廷玉乞歸失上指，因獎藻，謂其知君臣休戚相關大義，以媿廷玉，加藻內閣學士銜，賜人葠二斤，命歸養母。 At the time Grand Secretary Zhang Tingyu's request to retire had displeased the Emperor; the Emperor therefore praised Zao, saying that he understood the great principle that ruler and minister share weal and woe alike, so as to shame Zhang Tingyu. He granted Zao the title of Grand Secretary of the Grand Secretariat, bestowed two jin of ginseng, and ordered him home to care for his mother.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 337Volume 337 Biographies 124: Lu Chao, Tu Er Bing A, A Si Ha, Gong Zhaolin, Yang Jingsu, Min Eyuan · 1 passage
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