Su Kai (蘇楷) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Su Kai as a family member, historian, and 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

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Su Kai	蘇楷	Su Kai
Personal	Kai	楷	Kai
Given	Kai	楷	Kai
Descriptive kinship	Son of Su Xun	子楷

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0075

Roles

Family Member
Historian
Official

Life and dates

Death

Cause: anxiety / 憂
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0093

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 乾寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 894 · End: AD 898
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0075
Source Date: Text: 同光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0092
Source Date: Text: 明宗即位 · Western Year: AD 926
Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0093

Family

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Child of Su Xun (蘇循)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Parentage: biological · Line: paternal

Career and standing

Label: Vice Director in the Ministry / 尚書員外郎 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同光中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 923 · End: AD 926
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0092
Label: Diarist / 起居郎 · Action: held
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0076
Status: forced-return-to-village · Action: entered
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0083

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾寧中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 894 · End: AD 898
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0075
Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: struck-from-list · Authority Person Id: Emperor Zhaozong (昭宗)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0075

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: disputed-posthumous-title
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0078
Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true · Other Person Id: Zhang Tingfan (張廷範)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0076, xinwudaishi:035:s0077

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: author · Action: disputed-posthumous-title · Other Person Id: Emperor Zhaozong (昭宗)
Explicit · xinwudaishi:035:s0076, xinwudaishi:035:s0077, xinwudaishi:035:s0078

References in the histories

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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 4 passages

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循有子楷，乾寧中舉進士及第，昭宗遣學士陸扆覆落之，楷常慚恨。 His son Kai passed the jinshi in the Qianning era; Zhaozong had Lu Yi strike him from the list; Kai bore lasting resentment.

及昭宗遇弒，唐政出於梁，楷為起居郎，與柳璨、張廷範等相結，因謂廷範曰：「夫謚者，所以易名而貴信也。 When Zhaozong was murdered and Liang held Tang’s government, Kai was Diarist and joined Liu Can and Zhang Tingfan; he told Tingfan, “A posthumous title should honor truth.

而廷範本梁客將，嘗求太常卿不得者，廷範亦以此怨唐，因下楷疏廷範，廷範議曰：「臣聞執事堅固之謂恭，亂而不損之謂靈，武而不遂之謂莊，在國逢難之謂閔，因事有功之謂襄，請改謚昭宗皇帝曰恭靈莊閔皇帝，廟號襄宗。」 Tingfan, a Liang guest-general who had failed to win that post, resented Tang; he received Kai’s memorial and proposed: “I have heard that steadfast conduct is Gong, undamaged in disorder Ling, martial yet incomplete Zhuang, meeting national hardship Min, merit through events Xiang—I beg the posthumous title of Emperor Zhaozong be changed to Emperor Gong-Ling-Zhuang-Min, temple name Xiangzong.”

楷，同光中為尚書員外郎。 Kai in the Tongguang era was a vice director in the Ministry.