Shen Cengzhi (沈曾植)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shen Cengzhi as a historian, official, physician, and scholar. This record brings together 13 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	Shen Cengzhi	沈曾植	Shen Cengzhi
Given	Cengzhi	曾植	Cengzhi
Personal	Shen Zengzhi	沈曾植	Shen Zengzhi
Courtesy	Zipei	子培	Zipei

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Historian
Official
Physician
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 壬戌冬 · Western Year: AD 1922 · Age: Value: 73 · Reckoning: sui · Place: the coast / Shanghai area / 海上
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 丁巳 · Western Year: AD 1917
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Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
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Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
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Source Date: Text: 壬戌 · Western Year: AD 1922
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Source Date: Text: 宣統九年1917年五月十三日 · Western Year: AD 1917
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Source Date: Text: 拳亂 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Family

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Child of Mother of Shen Cengzhi
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Minister of Education / 學部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 丁巳復辟 · Western Year: AD 1917
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Label: acting governor of Anhui / 護巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
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Label: board minister / 尚書 · Action: appointed
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Jiaxing, Zhejiang / 浙江嘉興
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Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
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Works and attributed material

Work: Collected Essays and Poems of the Hairilou / 海日樓文詩集 · Relation: author
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Work: Collected Supplements to Han Law / 漢律輯補 · Relation: author
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Work: Supplements to the Jin History Treatise on Punishments / 晉書刑法志補 · Relation: author
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Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: planner · Action: helped arrange Southeast Mutual Protection Pact · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 拳亂 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed mutiny at Taihu maneuvers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年以後 · Western Year: AD 1908
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Relation: collaborator-with · Person Id: Zhang Zhidong (張之洞)
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Relation: collaborator-with · Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
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Relation: collaborator-with · Person Id: Liu Kunyi (劉坤一)
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Relation: collaborator-with · Person Id: Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: great scholar of far sight who died worn by grief · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 10 passages

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沈曾植，字子培，浙江嘉興人。 Shen Cengzhi, whose courtesy name was Zipei, came from Jiaxing in Zhejiang.

曾植為學兼綜漢、宋，而尤深於史學掌故，後專治遼、金、元三史，及西北輿地，南洋貿遷沿革。 Cengzhi's learning combined Han and Song traditions, but he was especially deep in historical precedent; later he specialized in the Liao, Jin, and Yuan histories, northwestern geography, and the commercial history of the southern seas.

中日和議成，曾植請自借英款創辦東三省鐵路，時俄之韋特西比利亞鐵路尚未建議也，不果行。 When the Sino-Japanese peace treaty was concluded, Cengzhi proposed borrowing British funds to build railways in the three eastern provinces on his own initiative; Russia's Trans-Siberian railway had not yet even been proposed, and the plan came to nothing.

拳亂啟釁，曾植與盛宣懷等密商保護長江之策，力疾走江、鄂，決大計於劉坤一、張之洞，而以李鴻章主其成，所謂「畫保東南約」也。 When the Boxer troubles began, Cengzhi joined Sheng Xuanhuai and others in secretly planning to protect the Yangzi; despite illness he hurried to Jiangsu and Hubei, settled the great decision with Liu Kunyi and Zhang Zhidong, and had Li Hongzhang bring it to completion—the so-called "Southeast Mutual Protection Pact."

出授江西廣信知府，曾植為政，知民情偽，而持之以忠恕，故事治而民親。 Sent out as prefect of Guangxin in Jiangxi, Cengzhi governed with an eye to the people's true needs and pretenses alike, yet upheld loyalty and forbearance; affairs were well ordered and the people drew close to him.

曾植聞之，登城守禦，檄協統餘大鴻馳入江防，楚材兵艦擊毀東門外砲兵壁壘，黃鳳岐奪回菱湖嘴火藥局，一日而亂定。 When Cengzhi heard of it, he mounted the wall to organize the defense; he ordered Assistant Commander Yu Dahong to rush to the river defenses, the gunboat Chucai to destroy the artillery works outside the east gate, and Huang Fengqi to recover the Linghuzui powder magazine—and in a single day the disorder was quelled.

曾植在皖五年，重治人而尚禮治，政無鉅細，皆以身先。 Cengzhi spent five years in Anhui, stressing the governance of people and honoring government by ritual; in affairs great and small he always led by example.

會外人要我訂約開銅官山礦，曾植嚴拒之。 When foreigners demanded a treaty to open the Tongguanshan mines, Cengzhi refused sternly.

未幾，貝子載振出皖境，當道命籓庫支巨款供張，曾植不允，遂與當道忤。 Before long Prince Zai Zhen left Anhui; the authorities ordered the provincial treasury to disburse huge sums for his entertainment, and Cengzhi refused, falling out with them.

乃宣、曾植皆碩學有遠識，惓惓不忘，卒憂傷憔悴以死。 Naixuan and Cengzhi were both great scholars of far sight who never slackened in devotion, and in the end died worn down by grief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei · 3 passages