Overview
Wang Gang was an official and Administrator.
Other names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Courtesy name | Zhongju | 仲舉 | Zhongju |
Life and dates
Death
- AD 1228 卒 after retirement in 紹定元年Uncertain · History of Song 408, passages 150, 154-155
Attested activity
- AD 1187 淳熙十四年Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 56-57
- AD 1224 before 理宗即位Strongly inferred · History of Song 408, passages 98, 118, 121, 129, 143-144
- AD 1228 Shaoding 1 biography continuation; Yue posting and writingsDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passages 156, 158, 162
- AD 1227 寶慶三年Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 145
- AD 1208 to AD 1224 汪綱之遺愛在越Dated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 293
- AD 1224 理宗即位Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 144
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- AD 1228 紹定元年…越數月…卒Dated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passages 150, 154-155
- AD 1228 紹定元年Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 150-153
- AD 1213 金人殺其主允濟自立Dated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 81
Family
Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.
- Child of Yihe (義和)father 父 · paternal lineDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 74
- Child of Mother of Wang Gang (汪綱之母)mother 母 · maternal lineStrongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 80
- Child of Grandfather of Wang Gang (汪綱之祖)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 57
- Descendant of Bo (勃)great-grandson 曾孫 · paternal line · 3 generationsDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 56
Career and standing
- document supervisor, Two-Zhe transport office 主管兩浙轉運司文字Appointed not taken upDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 80
- revenue recorder of Zhenjiang prefecture 鎮江府司戶參軍AD 1187 淳熙十四年 · AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 57
- prefect of Gaoyou Command 知高郵軍AD 1213 to AD 1224 屬金人殺其主允濟自立 · AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 86
- Right Culture Hall compiler 右文殿修撰AD 1224 理宗即位 · AppointedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 144
- Acting Vice Minister of Revenue 權戶部侍郎AD 1228 紹定元年 · AppointedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 153
- Auxiliary Academician of the Palace Library 直秘閣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 121
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- compiler at the Dragon Diagram Hall 直龍圖閣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 143
- handler for the Various Offices Audit Bureau 幹辦諸司審計司AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 85
- in charge of Eastern Zhejiang Pacification Commission affairs 主管浙東安撫司公事AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 129
- intendant of Huaidong Ever-Normal granaries 提舉淮東常平AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 90
- magistrate of Jintan County 知金壇縣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 73
- magistrate of Lanxi County 知蘭溪縣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 75
- magistrate of Pingyang County, Guiyang Command 桂陽軍平陽縣令AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 66
- magistrate of Taiping County 知太平縣AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 80
- overall director of Huaidong military horses and financial levies 總領淮東軍馬財賦AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 118
- prefect of Shaoxing 知紹興府AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 129
- prefect of Wuzhou 知婺州AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 121
- supervisor of the Eastern and Western treasuries 提轄東西庫AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 85
- Vice Director of the Ministry of Revenue 戶部員外郎AppointedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 118
- acting Minister of Agriculture 權司農卿Concurrent actingDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 143
- judicial intendant 提點刑獄ConcurrentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 129
- Baomo Pavilion attendant 寶謨閣待制AD 1224 理宗即位 · GrantedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 144
- holder of four seals in Yue 在越佩四印Held · At Yue 越Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 158
- Hall for Assembling Excellence compiler 集英殿修撰AD 1224 理宗即位 · PromotedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 144
- compiler at the Brilliant Chapter Hall 直煥章閣PromotedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 129
- supervisor of the Western Treasury of the Left Storehouse at the capital 監行在左藏西庫PromotedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 80
- Vice Minister of Revenue retained in charge 守戶部侍郎AD 1228 紹定元年…越數月 · RetainedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 154
- judicial intendant of Eastern Zhejiang 提點浙東刑獄TransferredDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 121
- magistrate of Yiyang County 知弋陽縣Transferred · Reason kinship tabooDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 73
- gold belt 金帶AD 1228 仍賜金帶 · BestowedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 154
- raised one rank 增一秩BestowedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 90
- special grant of two ranks 特畀二秩AD 1228 紹定元年…越數月 · GrantedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 154
- EnteredAD 1187 淳熙十四年 · Yin privilege entryDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 57
- Reported illness and asked to withdrawRequested leisureDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 121
- Submitted a memorial to retireAD 1228 紹定元年…越數月 · RetirementDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 154
- caning of eight ringleaders 杖其首惡者八人ImposedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 72
- immediate beheading 徑出斬之OrderedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 122
Places and affiliations
- Polity Song 宋 · Relation AssociatedStrongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 1
- Polity Song 宋 · Relation ServedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 56-57
- Polity Song 宋 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 158
- Polity Southern Song 南宋 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · History of Song 408, passages 118, 144, 293
- At Yixian County 黟縣Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 56
- AD 1187 淳熙十四年At Zhenjiang 鎮江 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 57
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- At Eastern Zhejiang 浙東 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 121, 129
- At Huaidong 淮東 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 113-114, 118
- At Pingyang County 平陽縣 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 66
- At Shaoxing 紹興府 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 129
- At Wuzhou 婺州 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 121-122
- At Yue 越 · Relation Posted toDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 146, 151, 155, 158, 293
Learning and skills
- devoted himself to learning, mastering past and present and probing principleDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 64-65
- passed the Hunan transport office examinationDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 63
- EarnedAD 1187 淳熙十四年 · Credential selection examination 銓試Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 57
- Skill policy writing 為文尤長於論事 · Level renownedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 160
- Skill military affairs, agriculture, medicine, divination, yin-yang, pitch pipes and calendrics 兵農、醫卜、陰陽、律曆 · Level studied comprehensivelyDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 156
Works and attributed material
- Collection of the Forgiving Studio 恕齋集Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 162
- Collection of the Forgiving Studio 恕齋集Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 162
- Random Preserved Records 漫存錄Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 162
- Record of the Left Treasury 左帑志Relation AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 162
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressed to Emperor Lizong (理宗) · Extent s0150 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 150
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressed to Emperor Lizong (理宗) · Extent s0152 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 152
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- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0098, s0099, s0100, s0101, s0102, s0103, s0104, s0105, s0106, s0107 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 98-107
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0109, s0110, s0111 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 109-111
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · With Zhong Baiyi (鍾百一) · Extent s0124 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 124
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0127 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 127
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0140 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 140
- Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Extent s0147 · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Wang Gang (汪綱)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 147
- Audience speech · SpeakerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 86-87
- Letter · Author · With Ma Datong (馬大同)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 59-61
- Petition · AuthorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 69
- Policy speech · SpeakerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 81-83
- Policy statement · SpeakerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 76, 91-96
- Spoken order · Speaker · With Cao Wu (曹伍)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 71
- Spoken remark · SpeakerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 63
Events and relationships
- Abolished thirty year penal levies after reporting to the censorial officesAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 67
- Added fifty new salterns, restored stations to the Qiandao era quota of 3.9 million piculs totaling 13 million strings, and ranked officials by performanceAdministrative · AdministratorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 116
- Advised Huai defense, grain delivery, and local troop measures to the pacification commissionerPolicy advice · AdviserDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 98-107
- Argued against buying wasteland for garrison farms; the Pacification Commission then stopped the planPolicy · OpponentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 109-112
- Argued against circulating Huai iron cash notes along the YangziDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 59, 61-62
- Borrowed Ever Normal funds for circulating drought relief instead of wholesale mutual aid leviesAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 76
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- Built a lodge every ten li named Bestowing Water and placed them under Daoist clergyPublic works · FounderDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 133-134
- By his words an edict ordered the Ever Normal intendant to reclaim lake fields; specious claims were rejectedPolicy · Recommender · At Zhuji 諸暨Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 136, 138
- Confronted Cao Wu's famine band with food for those who submitted and death for rebelsDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 70-71
- Declined mutual gifts between censorial and prefectural offices and raised station officials' salaries to support integrityAdministrative · OfficialDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 117
- Died; many in Yue shed tears and some gathered to weep at temples and shrinesDeath · DeceasedDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 155
- Dredged the Xiaoshan canal more than eight thousand zhang, restored the river mouth sluice, and brick paved the towpath to the cityEngineering · Director · At Xiaoshan 蕭山Directly stated · History of Song 408, passages 131-132
- Enlarged and repaired Xinghua dikes and culvertsEngineering · Prefect · At Xinghua 興化Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 89
- Exposed hidden salt office abuses so the levy turned from deficit to surplusAdministrative · ReformerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 113-114
- Governed Yue with four concurrent seals and cleared documents rapidlyAdministrative · Administrator · At Yue 越Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 158
- Inquired into the people's hardships and urgently abolished abusesAdministrative · PrefectDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 130
- Left after remonstrance and stopped locals from throwing themselves before his carriagePolitical · OfficialDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 79
- Mourned his father and completed mourningDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 75
- Petitioned to cut Pingyang silver tribute after mines were exhaustedAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 68-69
- Planned defenses sixty li from Gaoyou toward TianchangMilitary · PrefectDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 87
- Prayed for rain at Longrui PalaceRitual · Officiant · At Longrui Palace 龍瑞宮Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 126
- Proposed Jinling and Jingkou purchases to reopen Huai rice transport and use rotting Pingjiang storesAdministrative · IntendantDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 91-96
- Raised five thousand naval troops, a hundred vessels, and three fortsMilitary · PrefectDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 88
- Rebuked fort officers, released grain, and sold relief grainAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 72
- Recruited naval troops and fork handlers, trained them with no other duties, built more than a thousand barracks, and increased armor and weaponsMilitary · OrganizerDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 140-142
- Refused to flatter Ma Datong at JingkouDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58
- Refused to treat a vermilion serpentine form as an omen; thunder rain and a great harvest followedRitual · OfficiantDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 126-128
- Rejected fabricated accomplice charges against Zhong BaiyiDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 124-125
- Released more than 38,000 piculs of grain and 50,000 strings and remitted more than 60,000 piculs of rent after a great floodAD 1227 寶慶三年 · Disaster relief · AdministratorDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 145
- Released prisoners wrongly held at QuzhouLegal · Judge · At Quzhou 衢Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 123
- Repaid all salt office debts and stored a surplus of 300,000 strings as reserve salt capitalFinancial · AdministratorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 115
- Reported that 250,000 of Yue's 410,000 aggregate items were empty Shaoxing era quotas padded with spirit palace funds; an edict remitted 95,000 stringsFiscal · ReporterDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 146-149
- Summoned to the temporary capital and received in audienceDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passages 150-152
- The prefecture set aside 30,000 strings for dike repairs so coastal fields became securePublic works · AdministratorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 137, 139
- Treated Man and Yan peoples of the stream gorges with kindness and good faithAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 66
- Underwent inner mourning for his motherStrongly inferred · History of Song 408, passage 80
- Urged dredging ponds and building weirs so the hungry earned food by laborAdministrative · MagistrateDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 77
- Urged stopping Jin succession envoys and reverting tribute to Longxing and Dading precedentsAD 1213 金人殺其主允濟自立 · Diplomatic · AdviserDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 81-84
- Verified accounts, checked delays, and kept provisions from running shortLogistics · AdministratorDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passages 119-120
- While reviewing prisoners at Wuzhou, ordered a slave who had killed his master's son to be beheaded at onceLegal · JudgeDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 122
- Relation Subordinate of · Person Ma Datong (馬大同)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 58
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment accepted sound advice from humble clerks · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 159
- Assessment disliked luxury; would not replace worn carriage and equipment · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 161
- Assessment enduring benevolence in Yue; exemplifies choosing the worthy and employing them long · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 293
- Assessment finished piled documents in no more than twenty quarter-hours; public court as still water · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 158
- Assessment foremost in famine relief in the circuit · Mode named-person-judgment Source Person Id Zhang Yi (張抑)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 78
- Assessment governance and conduct very fine · Mode quoted-speech Speaker Emperor Lizong (理宗)Directly stated · History of Song 408, passage 151
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- Assessment judgments seemed uncanny in their accuracy · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 75
- Assessment learning had deep foundations; widely read · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 156
- Assessment mind keen and decided affairs at once · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 157
- Assessment restrained himself and led those below · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 117
- AD 1228 仍賜金帶Item gold belt 金帶 · Relation BestowedDated from the passage context · History of Song 408, passage 154
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 156
- Value historicalDirectly stated · History of Song 408, passage 98
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