Qing · Official and Scholar

Ruan Yuan 阮元

Died AD 1849

Passages
25
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Ruan Yuan as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 25 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Ruan Yuan 阮元 Ruan Yuan
Courtesy Boyuan 伯元
Title Grand Secretary Ruan Yuan 大學士阮元
Surname Ruan 阮 Ruan
Personal name Ruan Yuan 阮元 Ruan Yuan
Personal Ruan Yuan 阮元
Posthumous Wenda 文達
Given Yuan 元 Yuan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849 · Age: 86
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0070

Age

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Father of Ruan Yuan
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Office: Governor of Guangdong / 廣東巡撫 · Action: acted six times · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 在粵九年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1817 · End: AD 1826
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0057
  • Office: Superintendent of Guangdong maritime customs / 粵海關監督 · Action: acting concurrently · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0051
  • Office: Governor of Zhejiang / 浙江巡撫 · Action: acting then substantively appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0011
  • Office: Governor of Henan / 河南巡撫 · Action: acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十二年 · Western Year: AD 1807
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0029
  • Office: Vice-minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十二年 · Western Year: AD 1807
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0028
  • Office: Assistant grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed while retained as governor-general · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0063
  • Office: Educational commissioner of Shandong / 山東學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十八年 · Western Year: AD 1793
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0009
  • Office: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十四年 · Western Year: AD 1789
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0005
  • Office: Vice-minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十二年 · Western Year: AD 1807
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0029
  • Office: Grand secretary of Tiren Hall / 體仁閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十五年 · Western Year: AD 1835
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0067
  • Office: Director-general of grain transport / 漕運總督 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0037
  • Label: Grand Secretary / 大學士 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0156
  • Office: Vice-minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0010
  • Office: Vice-minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0010
  • Office: Vice-minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0010
  • Office: Governor-general of Huguang / 湖廣總督 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1816
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0040
  • Office: Junior vice-president of the Secretariat / 少詹事 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1790
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0006
  • Office: Supervisor of the Household of the Heir Apparent / 詹事 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1790
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0008
  • Office: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0036
  • Office: Vice-minister of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0037
  • Office: Governor of Zhejiang / 浙江巡撫 · Action: reappointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0029, qingshigao:364:s0030
  • Office: Governor of Fujian / 福建巡撫 · Action: recalled to act but declined for illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0027
  • Office: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: reduced to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0035
  • Office: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: selected · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十四年 · Western Year: AD 1789
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0005
  • Office: Educational commissioner of Zhejiang / 浙江學政 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十八年 · Western Year: AD 1793
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0009
  • Office: Governor of Henan / 河南巡撫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1816
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0040
  • Office: Governor-general of Liangguang / 兩廣總督 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0042
  • Office: Governor of Jiangxi / 江西巡撫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Western Year: AD 1814
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0038
  • Office: Governor-general of Yunnan and Guizhou / 雲貴總督 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0058
  • Honor: Peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Western Year: AD 1814
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0039
  • Honor: Junior guardian of the heir apparent / 太子少保 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十九年 · Western Year: AD 1814
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0039
  • Honor: Senior guardian of the heir apparent / 太子太保 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0068
  • Honor: posthumous title Wenda / 文達 · Action: posthumously bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0070
  • Honor: Grand tutor / 太傅 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1846
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0069
  • Status: retirement · Action: entered with half salary · Reason: age and illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0068
  • Status: mourning for father · Action: left office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0026
  • Action: stripped of office · Reason: favoritism in examination scandal · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十三年 · Western Year: AD 1808
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0035

Places and affiliations

  • Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0002
  • Place: Yizheng, Jiangsu / 江蘇儀徵 · Relation: native-of
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0003
  • Organization: local worthies shrine and Zhejiang eminent officials shrine / 鄉賢祠、浙江名宦祠 · Relation: enshrined-in
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0071

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: erudite, versatile, and revered nationwide as a scholarly leader · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0072, qingshigao:364:s0087
  • Assessment: governed Zhejiang benevolently and was especially successful against pirates · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0034
  • Assessment: his maritime and border achievements were praiseworthy, and he shaped younger scholars despite differing from Cao Zhenyong · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0201, qingshigao:364:s0202, qingshigao:364:s0203
  • Assessment: honored and looked up to by the scholarly community · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0156

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 364Volume 364 Biographies 151: Ruan Yuan, Wang Tingzhen, Tang Jinzhao · 21 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 376Volume 376 Biographies 163: Xin Congyi, Zhang Lin, Gu Gao, Shen Weiqiao, Zhu Wei, Cheng Enze, Wu Jie · 3 passages
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