Lord No-such-person (亡是公)

Overview

The translated histories identify Lord No-such-person as a named individual and statesman. This record brings together 4 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	Lord No-such-person	亡是公	Wúshì gōng
Personal name	Lord No-such-person	亡是公	Wúshì gōng

Identity

Historicity: Literary
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · hanshu:066:s0049

Roles

Named Individual
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: composition context: Sima Xiangru's lifetime · Western Interval: Start: BC 179 · End: BC 117 · Qualitative: literary figure; interval describes composition context, not lifespan
Strongly inferred · hanshu:066:s0043, hanshu:066:s0049

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Within Work: 子虛賦
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Source notes

Historicity: literary
Explicit · hanshu:066:s0043, hanshu:066:s0044

References in the histories

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Book of Han, Chapter 66Volume 57a: Sima Xiangru · 4 passages

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「亡是公」者，亡是人也，欲明天子之義。 and that “Lord No-such-person” signified no such man at all—figures meant to expound the Son of Heaven’s true standard.

田罷，子虛過奼烏有先生，亡是公存焉。 When the hunt broke up, Sir Vacuity called on Mr. Nonexistence—Lord No-such-person was there too. (The received text is damaged at one character.)

亡是公聽然而笑曰：「楚則失矣，而齊亦未為得也。 Lord No-such-person laughed aloud and said, “Chu was in the wrong—but Qi fares no better.

亡是公言上林廣大，山谷水泉萬物，及子虛言雲夢所有甚眾，侈靡多過其實，且非義理所止，故刪取其要，歸正道而論之。 Lord No-such-person’s description of Shanglin and Sir Vacuity’s catalogue of Cloud Dream swell beyond fact and stray from moral purpose; the historian has therefore trimmed them to essentials and set the discourse back on the proper path.