Shi Dakai (石達開) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shi Dakai as a general and rebel. This record brings together 6 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shi Dakai	石達開	Shi Dakai
Personal name	Shi Dakai	石達開	Shi Dakai

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:393:s0161, qingshigao:423:s0015
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0080, qingshigao:464:s0043

Roles

General
Rebel

Life and dates

Death

Manner: decapitated and head displayed after surrender · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0087

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:458:s0080, qingshigao:458:s0081, qingshigao:458:s0087
Source Date: Text: 光緒十六年 · Western Year: AD 1890
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:464:s0043
Source Date: Text: 同治三年前後 · Western Year: AD 1864
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0135
Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0161

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0043
Polity: Qing · Relation: active-in
Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0080

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: attacker · Action: attacked-Laifeng-Longshan
Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0043
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: besieged Fuzhou and later probed Qijiang · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862 · Other Person Id: Tang Jiong (唐炯)
Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0080, qingshigao:458:s0081

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 1 passage

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崇光至貴州，會粵匪石達開餘黨陷綏陽，督兵擊走之，遂駐貴陽。 Chongguang reached Guizhou, where remnants of Shi Dakai's Guangdong rebels had seized Suiyang; he directed troops to drive them off and then established headquarters at Guiyang.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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黃文金由此而來，石達開由此而去，前事可為深警。 Huang Wenjin had come this way; Shi Dakai had gone this way—a lesson the court should heed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 458Volume 458 Biographies 245: Xu Yanxu, Tang Jiong, He Jing, Zhang Zhaodong · 3 passages

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會石達開圍涪州，與劉岳昭期會師，擊走之。 When Shi Dakai besieged Fuzhou, he joined Liu Yuezhao in a coordinated attack and drove him off.

其夏，石黨窺綦江。 That summer Shi's followers probed Qijiang for weakness.

達開返西岸，退為倮夷所窘，食盡乞降，梟誅之。 Dakai recrossed to the west bank, was harried by the Lolo tribes as he retreated, ran out of food, and begged to surrender. He was beheaded and his head displayed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 464Volume 464 Biographies 251: Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijingzi, Ren Zhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Ceng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong With: Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, Kang Guangren · 1 passage

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石達開來犯，軍飢疲，走永順募糧，糧至不絕，守益堅，寇稍稍引去。 When Shi Dakai attacked, the troops were hungry and exhausted; Baozhen went to Yongshun to raise grain, supplies kept coming, the defense held firmer, and the rebels gradually withdrew.