Quan Gao 權臯

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Duke Anqiu Yi (翼)
  twelfth-generation descendant 十二世孫 · 12 generations
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 71
• Child of Quan Kun (倕)
  father 父
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 72
• Child of Mother of Quan Gao (臯母)
  mother 母
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 79
• Parent of Quan Deyu (德輿)
  son 子
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 97
• Sibling of Younger Sister of Quan Gao (臯妹)
  younger sister 妹 · Full siblings
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 76

Career and standing

• Investigating Censor 監察御史
  AD 756 to AD 757 玄宗在蜀 · Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 84
• Administrative Assistant to the Huainan Investigation Commissioner 淮南采訪判官
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 82
• Magistrate of Ji 薊尉
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 73
• Trial Judge of the Grand Court 試大理評事
  Appointed
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 82
• Magistrate of Linqing 臨清尉
  Held
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 73
• Compiler of the Palace Library 著作郎
  Offered
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 91

Places and affiliations

• Relation Served · Polity Tang 唐
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 73, 84
• Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 194, passage 127
• At Lueyang, Qinzhou 秦州略陽
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 71
• AD 755 天寶十四載
  At Fuchang 福昌 · Relation Traveled through
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 75
• At Dantu, Runzhou 潤州丹徒 · Relation Migrated to
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 71
• At Hongzhou 洪州 · Relation Resided in
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 84

Learning and skills

• Earned
  Credential Presented Scholar 進士
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 73

Works and attributed material

• Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 86-87, 90

Events and relationships

• Assigned to An Lushan's secretariat
  Political · Appointee · With An Lushan (安祿山)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 73
• Attended mother fleeing south; crossed Yangzi before Lushan rebelled
  Travel · Actor
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 80-81
• Dissuaded Wang Gou from prosecuting a palace envoy
  Political · Advisor · With Wang Gou (王遘)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 85-88
• Falsified name to escape coercion by the Prince of Yong
  Political · Actor · With Prince of Yong (永王)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 83
• Feigned muteness and death with sister's help, then slipped away
  Personal · Actor
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 76-78
• Firmly declined the Imperial Diarist summons
  Political · Actor
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passages 89-90

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment fit to serve as chief minister and royal tutor · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Wang Ding (王定)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 93
• Assessment fit to serve as chief minister and royal tutor · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Han Hui (韓洄)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 93
• Assessment integrity standard to which Ji was compared · Mode named-source-report Source Person Id Yuan Zi (袁滋)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 127
• Assessment lofty conduct · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Li Jiqing (李季卿)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 91
• Assessment to divide the empire's good and evil required only this one man · Mode named-person-judgment Speaker Li Hua (李華)
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 94
• contracted wind-damp paralysis (風痺疾)
  Illness
  Directly stated · New Book of Tang 194, passage 84