Tang Jingchong 唐景崇

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0073

Roles

• Historian
• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman
• Writer

Family

• Child of Tang Maogong (唐懋功)
  Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
• Child of Mother of Tang Jingchong (唐景崇母)
  Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

• Label: acting Left Censor-in-Chief / 權左都御史 · Action: acting
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0079
• Label: Classics Colloquium lecturer / 經筵講官 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0098
• Label: Compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0075
• Label: advising minister at the Bide Academy / 弼德院顧問大臣 · Action: concurrent
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0105
• Label: Jiangsu educational commissioner / 江蘇學政 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0081
• Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0079
• Label: Vice Minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0079
• Label: Vice Minister of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0081
• Label: Zhejiang educational commissioner / 浙江學政 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0079
• Label: Minister of Education / 學部尚書 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統二年 · Western Year: AD 1910
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0102
• Label: Grand Secretariat Academician / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0076
• Label: Minister of Educational Affairs / 學務大臣 · Action: reassigned
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0103
• Label: Vice Minister of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: transferred
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0098
• Status: resignation · Action: resigned for illness
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0107

Places and affiliations

• Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0075
• Place: Guanyang, Guangxi / 廣西灌陽
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0073

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0075
• Skill: historical study / 治史 · Level: especially loved
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0109
• Skill: astronomy and mathematics / 天文算術 · Level: mastered
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0109

Works and attributed material

• Work: Commentary on the New Book of Tang / 新唐書注 · Relation: author
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0110, qingshigao:443:s0112
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · About: constitutional government four points
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0084
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · About: opposed moving Guangxi capital to Nanning
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0086, qingshigao:443:s0087, qingshigao:443:s0088, qingshigao:443:s0089, qingshigao:443:s0090, qingshigao:443:s0091, qingshigao:443:s0092, qingshigao:443:s0093, qingshigao:443:s0094, qingshigao:443:s0095, qingshigao:443:s0096
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · About: ten educational proposals
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0082

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: supervisor · Action: ordered to supervise Guangxi militia · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 拳禍 · Western Year: AD 1900
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0080
• Kind: examination · Role: examiner · Action: presided over Guangdong examination · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0077
• Kind: mourning · Role: son · Action: returned home to mourn mother · Other Person Id: Mother of Tang Jingchong (唐景崇母)
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0079
• Kind: political · Role: opponent · Action: stopped Guangxi capital relocation
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0097

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: solid scholarship and upright character; trusted with examinations · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0099
• Assessment: sought to reconcile old and new in education · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0220