Tang Bin (湯斌) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Tang Bin as an administrator, historian, official, and scholar. This record brings together 13 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Tang Bin	湯斌	Tang Bin
Personal	Bin	斌
Personal	Tang Bin	湯斌
Personal name	Tang Bin	湯斌	Tang Bin

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0106

Roles

Administrator
Historian
Official
Scholar
Statesman
Teacher
Writer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Western Interval: Start: AD 1822 · End: AD 1865 · Source Date: Text: Li Tangjie Hanlin study before death
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Source Date: Text: 康熙二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1686
Explicit · qingshigao:270:s0144
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1686
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:285:s0149
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0106, qingshigao:269:s0150, qingshigao:278:s0047, qingshigao:278:s0054
Source Date: Text: 康熙十八年 · Western Year: AD 1679
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:285:s0034
Source Date: Text: 康熙十六年 · Western Year: AD 1677
Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0091

Career and standing

Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙十六年 · Western Year: AD 1677
Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0091

Works and attributed material

Work: posthumous writings / 遺書 · Relation: author/source copied by Li Tangjie
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0121

Events and relationships

Kind: policy · Role: proposer · Action: proposed-dredging-Lower-River
Explicit · qingshigao:278:s0054

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0106

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 3 passages

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薦湯斌傅皇太子，即以傾斌。 He recommended Tang Bin as tutor to the crown prince, then used the appointment to destroy him.

當明珠用事，國柱務罔利以迎合之，及內轉左都御史，遷戶部尚書，湯斌繼國柱撫江蘇； Under Mingzhu's power Guozhu sought illicit profit to please him; promoted to left censor-in-chief and revenue minister, he was succeeded in Jiangsu by Tang Bin;

國柱索斌獻明珠金，斌不能應，由是傾之。 Guozhu demanded gold for Mingzhu; when Bin refused, they destroyed him.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 1 passage

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二十五年，巡撫湯斌薦琇居心恬淡，蒞事精銳，請遷擢。 In year 25 Governor Tang Bin praised his calm integrity and sharp administration and asked for his promotion.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 5 passages

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叔元疎劾湯斌，焯請削門生籍，叔元擯之，竟不得成名。 when Shuyuan impeached Tang Bin, Chao asked to be struck from his register of disciples; Shuyuan cast him out, and he never won recognition.

初，以式玉疎下九卿集議，尚書湯斌謂大臣不言，慚對漢臣。 When Tao Shiyu's memorial was first referred to the Nine Ministers, Minister Tang Bin declared that senior officials who held their tongues should be ashamed before Dong Hanchen.

漢臣既黜，鴻緒偕左都御史璙丹、副都御史徐元珙合疎劾斌務名鮮實，並追論江寧巡撫去任時，巧飾文告，以博虚譽。 After Dong Hanchen's dismissal, Wang Hongxu joined Left Censor-in-Chief Kuang Dan and Vice Censor-in-Chief Xu Yuanqi in impeaching Tang Bin for cultivating a reputation without substance, and for having, as Jiangning governor on leaving office, dressed up his farewell proclamations to win hollow acclaim.

上素重斌淸廉，置弗問。 The emperor had long esteemed Tang Bin's integrity and took no action.

五十三年，疎言：「臣舊居館職，奉命爲明史總裁官，與湯斌、徐乾學、葉方靄互相參訂，僅成數巻。 In year 53 he wrote: "I once served in the Hanlin Academy as chief compiler of the Ming history, working with Tang Bin, Xu Qianxue, and Ye Fang'ai; we completed only a few fascicles.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 278Volume 278 Biographies 65: Mu Tianyan, A Shan, Ga Li · 1 passage

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上先用湯斌議，遣侍郎孫在豐疏濬下河。 The emperor first adopted Tang Bin's plan and sent Vice Minister Sun Zaifeng to dredge the Lower River.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 285Volume 285 Biographies 72: Wang Zishou, Yuan Zhouzuo, Li Shihong, Duo Hong An, Wang Xu, Zhang Mengqiu · 2 passages

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迨開博學鴻詞科，魏象樞以紫綬與湯斌同薦入試。 When the special erudition examination opened, Wei Xiangshu nominated Zishou and Tang Bin to compete.

少學於湯斌。 As a youth he studied under Tang Bin.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 1 passage

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棠階初入翰林，即潛心理學，嘗手鈔湯斌遺書以自勗。 From his first days in the Hanlin, Tangjie immersed himself in Neo-Confucian study and once copied Tang Bin's posthumous writings by hand to spur himself on.