Wang Boyan (汪伯彥) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Boyan as an official and statesman. This record brings together 3 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	Wang Boyan	汪伯彥	Wang Boyan
Given	Boyan	伯彥
Personal name	Wang Boyan	汪伯彥	Wang Boyan
Personal	Wang Boyan	汪伯彥

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · songshi:359:s0224, songshi:469:s0006

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 金人掠陝西 · Western Year: AD 1127
Explicit event contextual date · songshi:469:s0006
Source Date: Text: 靖康、建炎間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1127 · End: AD 1129
Explicit · songshi:359:s0224, songshi:359:s0221

References in the histories

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History of Song, Chapter 359Volume 359 Biographies 118: Li Gang 2 · 1 passage

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然綱居相位僅七十日，其謀數不見用，獨于黃潛善、汪伯彥、秦檜之言，信而任之，恒若不及，何高宗之見，與人殊哉？ Yet Li Gang held the chancellorship for barely seventy days, and his counsels were repeatedly rejected — while Huang Qianshan, Wang Boyan, and Qin Hui alone were trusted and entrusted as though there were no time to lose. How strange that Gaozong's vision differed so from ordinary men's!

History of Song, Chapter 469Volume 469 Biographies 228: Eunuchs 4: Shao Chengzhang, Lan Gui Kanglu, Feng Yi, Zhang Quwei, Chen Yuan, Gan Bian, Wang Deqian, Guan Li, Dong Songchen · 2 passages

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金人掠陝西、京東諸郡，群盜起山東，黃潛善、汪伯彥匿不以聞。 Jurchen forces overran Shaanxi and the eastern capital region; bandit armies sprang up across Shandong; yet Huang Qianshan and Wang Boyan suppressed the reports and never told the emperor.

成章上疏條具潛善、伯彥之罪曰，必誤國，且申潛善等使聞之。 Chengzhang memorialized with a detailed bill of charges against Qianshan and Boyan, declaring they would ruin the dynasty, and even made sure the accused heard what he had written.