Wang Ding (王鼎) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Ding as an official and statesman. This record brings together 5 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 Ding	王鼎	Wáng Dǐng
Given	Ding	鼎	Ding
Surname	Wang	王	Wang
Personal name	Wang Ding	王鼎	Wang Ding

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0176
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0176, qingshigao:379:s0173
Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0109
Source Date: Text: 陶澍繼督兩江 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0081, qingshigao:384:s0109

Career and standing

Label: minister / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0176
Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0081, qingshigao:384:s0109

Events and relationships

Kind: policy · Role: commissioner · Action: planned-salt-reform · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0109

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 3 passages

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議者多主改法課歸場灶，命尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興赴江南查議。 Many deliberators favored changing the law to assign tax collection directly to the salt fields and furnaces; the emperor ordered the minister Wang Ding and the vice minister Bao Xing to go to Jiangnan to investigate.

澍謂除弊即以興利，無事輕改舊制，偕鼎等合疏臚陳利害，條上十五事。 Shu argued that eliminating abuses was itself a way to increase revenue and that there was no need to alter the old system lightly; together with Ding and others he submitted a detailed joint memorial setting forth fifteen proposals.

鼎等復請裁鹽政歸總督管理，報可。 Ding and others further petitioned to abolish the salt commissioner and place management under the governor-general; the request was approved.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 2 passages

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陶澍繼督兩江，與尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興會籌鹽法，合疏留鳳生襄議，於是大有興革，略與鳳生初議相出入； Tao Shu succeeded as governor-general of the Two Jiangs and, with Minister Wang Ding and Vice Minister Bao Xing, worked out salt reforms; they jointly memorialized to keep Fengsheng to help draft the plan, and the resulting overhaul largely followed, though not entirely, his original proposals;

十年，宣宗以兩淮鹽法大壞，授陶澍為兩江總督，命尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興赴江南會議改革。 In the tenth year, seeing how badly the Liang-Huai salt system had decayed, the Xuanzong Emperor appointed Tao Shu governor-general of the Two Jiangs and sent Minister Wang Ding and Vice Minister Bao Xing to Jiangnan to plan reforms.