Ancient China · Official

Shi She 石奢

Attested BC 515 - BC 489

Passages
4
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Shi She as an official. 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

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Shi She 石奢 Shi She

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Manner: suicide by cutting throat · Cause: chose death after releasing father rather than break law or filial duty

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 楚昭王 · Western Interval: Start: BC 515 · End: BC 489
    Strongly inferred · shiji:119:s0050

Family

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

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: legal · Role: actor · Action: cut his own throat and died
    Explicit · shiji:119:s0063
  • Kind: legal · Role: actor · Action: released his father and bound himself · Other Person Id: Father of Shi She
    Explicit · shiji:119:s0053
  • Kind: legal · Role: pursuer · Action: while inspecting counties, pursued a murderer and discovered it was his father · Other Person Id: Father of Shi She
    Explicit · shiji:119:s0052

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: firm, upright, incorruptible, and just, without favoritism or evasion · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · shiji:119:s0051

References in the histories

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Records of the Grand Historian, Chapter 119Biographies of Upright Officials · 4 passages