Shuyuan (書元) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Shuyuan as an administrator and official. This record brings together 7 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	Shuyuan	書元	Shūyuán
Personal name	Shuyuan	書元	Shūyuán
Personal	Shuyuan	書元	Shuyuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0104

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年四月 · Western Year: AD 1857
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0104, qingshigao:191:s0097
Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年六月壬子 · Western Year: AD 1859
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0122, qingshigao:191:s0119
Western Year: AD 1852 · Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0132, qingshigao:391:s0134
Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年六月 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0115, qingshigao:191:s0108
Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年六月乙丑 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0111, qingshigao:191:s0108

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0104

Career and standing

Label: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief / 左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年四月 · Western Year: AD 1857
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0104, qingshigao:191:s0097
Label: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院右侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年六月乙丑 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0111, qingshigao:191:s0108
Office: Vice Minister and deputy supervisor at Chongwen Gate / 侍郎兼崇文門副監督 · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1852 · Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 context
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0132
Label: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院右侍郎 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年六月壬子 · Western Year: AD 1859
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0122, qingshigao:191:s0119
Label: Manchu Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左副都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年六月 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0115, qingshigao:191:s0108
Action: suspected of being singled out in illicit-brewers case; case later resolved · Related Case: extortion by Shuyuan household
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0132, qingshigao:391:s0133, qingshigao:391:s0134, qingshigao:391:s0135

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0104

Events and relationships

Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred-from-vice-censor · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年六月 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0115
Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年六月壬子 · Western Year: AD 1859
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0122

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 191Volume 191 Tables 31: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 7 Lower · 4 passages

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書元四月左副都御史。 In the fourth month, 書元: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

靈桂六月乙丑遷。書元理藩院右侍郎。 On the yichou day of the sixth month, 靈桂 was transferred. 書元: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs.

書元六月遷。九月甲午成琦左副都御史。 In the sixth month, 書元 was transferred. On the jiawu day of the ninth month, 成琦: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

書元六月壬子遷。察杭阿理藩院右侍郎。 On the renzi day of the sixth month, 書元 was transferred. 察杭阿: Right Vice Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 3 passages

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時侍郎書元兼崇文門副監督，獲販私釀者三十六人，承審者以漏稅擬滿杖。 Vice Minister Shuyuan was then deputy supervisor at Chongwen Gate when thirty-six illicit brewers were seized; the examiners proposed the maximum penalty for tax evasion.

已而覆訊得書元家人詐贓狀，部臣據以入奏。 On re-examination, evidence of extortion by Shuyuan's household came out, and the ministries reported it to the throne.

文宗疑書元孤立，降旨切責，會廷棟召對，上詢是獄。 The Xianfeng Emperor suspected Shuyuan was being singled out and rebuked the ministries sharply; when Wu Tingdong was called to audience, the emperor asked about the case.