Qing · Grand Secretary

Tang Jinshao 湯金釗

Tāng Jīnzhāo

Died AD 1856

Passages
20
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Tang Jinshao as an official, statesman, and teacher. This record brings together 20 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodQing

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Tang Jinshao 湯金釗 Tāng Jīnzhāo
Courtesy Dunfu 敦甫
Title Grand Secretary 大學士
Personal name Tang Jin-zhao 湯金釗
Personal name Tang Jinshao 湯金釗 Tāng Jīnzhāo
Personal Tang Jinzhao 湯金釗
Posthumous Wenduan 文端

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Statesman
  • Teacher

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0197

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Father of Tang Jinzhao
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Mother of Tang Jinzhao
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Tang Xiu (修)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Office: Vice-minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: acting concurrently · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0161
  • Office: Vice-minister of Rites, Works, and granary stores / 禮、工二部及倉場侍郎 · Action: acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0173
  • Office: Acting governor of Shaanxi / 署陝西巡撫 · Action: appointed acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十六年 · Western Year: AD 1836
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0181
  • Office: Minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 光祿寺卿 · Action: appointed after demotion · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1843
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0193
  • Office: Minister of Works / 工部尚書 · Action: appointed after restoration as censor-in-chief · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾兩年 · Western Year: AD 1833
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0179
  • Office: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0139
  • Office: Assistant grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0185
  • Office: Chief tutor of the Upper Study / 上書房總師傅 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0177
  • Office: Educational commissioner of Hunan / 湖南學政 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0142
  • Office: Vice-minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十一年 · Western Year: AD 1831
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0178
  • Office: Minister of Revenue / 戶部尚書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0185
  • Label: Grand Secretary / 大學士 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0008
  • Label: Vice minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0054
  • Office: Hanlin expositor / 侍講 · Action: promoted after mourning
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0142
  • Office: Left censor-in-chief / 左都御史 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0175
  • Office: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0175
  • Office: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0143
  • Office: Educational commissioner of Jiangnan / 江南學政 · Action: retained after examining
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0145
  • Office: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: selected · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0139
  • Office: Vice-minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: substantively appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光六年 · Western Year: AD 1826
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0174
  • Office: Vice-minister of Revenue / 戶部侍郎 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0172
  • Office: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0185
  • Office: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0177, qingshigao:364:s0179
  • Office: Vice-minister of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0150
  • Office: Vice-minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0149
  • Honor: first-rank button / 頭品頂戴 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0195
  • Honor: senior guardian of the heir apparent / 太子太保 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐四年 · Western Year: AD 1854
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0196
  • Honor: posthumous title Wenduan / 文端 · Action: posthumously bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0197
  • Status: mourning for mother · Action: completed before resuming office
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0142
  • Status: retirement · Action: permitted with second-rank button · Reason: age and illness
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0194
  • Status: mourning for father · Action: returned home · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0172
  • Action: demoted four ranks and transferred · Reason: Chen Qishi’s accusation · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0192

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: a remonstrating minister whose memorial clarified right and wrong without harming government · Provenance: Mode: quoted-edict · Source Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0159
  • Assessment: stood with stern integrity and was renowned for pure conduct · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0204
  • Assessment: upright, self-restrained, plain in living, incorrupt, and renowned for integrity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0141, qingshigao:364:s0198, qingshigao:364:s0199
  • Assessment: was cast out for outspoken counsel, but Xuanzong ultimately recognized his loyalty and gave him Duan as posthumous character · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0205

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 364Volume 364 Biographies 151: Ruan Yuan, Wang Tingzhen, Tang Jinzhao · 18 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 1 passage
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