Yuan · Administrator and Official

Wang Gen 王艮

Wáng Gěn

Attested AD 1320 - AD 1350

Passages
12
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Gen as an administrator and official. This record brings together 12 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodYuan

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Gen 王艮 Wáng Gěn
Given Gen 艮 Gěn
Courtesy Zhishan 止善 Zhǐshàn

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 仕宦江浙 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1320 · End: AD 1350
    Explicit event contextual date · yuanshi:192:s0142

Career and standing

  • Label: administrative aide of Liang-Zhe Salt Transport Commission / 兩浙都轉運鹽使司經歷 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0149
  • Label: administrative officer of Xia Prefecture headquarters / 峽州總管府知事 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0145
  • Label: chief clerk of Huaidong Pacification Commission / 淮東宣慰司令史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0144
  • Label: clerical officer of Huaidong Surveillance Commission / 淮東廉訪司書吏 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0142
  • Label: recording secretary and assistant judge of Luzhou / 廬州錄事判官 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0143
  • Label: secretariat clerk of Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat / 江浙行省掾史 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0145
  • Label: vice director of Jiangxi Branch Secretariat / 江西行省左右司員外郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0170
  • Label: magistrate of Jiande County / 建德縣尹 · Action: held
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0149
  • Label: administrative aide of Maritime Grain Transport Command / 海道漕運都萬戶府經歷 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0156
  • Label: revising officer of Jiang-Zhe Branch Secretariat / 江浙行省檢校官 · Action: transferred
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0162
  • Status: retired · Action: entered
    Explicit · yuanshi:192:s0175

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Events and relationships

References in the histories

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History of Yuan, Chapter 192Volume 192 Biographies 79: Virtuous Officials 2 · 12 passages
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運船為風所敗者，當核實除其數，移文往返，連數歲不絕，艮取吏牘披閱，即除其糧五萬二千八百石、鈔二百五十萬緡，運戶乃免於破家。 When transport ships were wrecked in storms, deductions were supposed to be verified, but documents shuttled back and forth for years; Gen read through the files and at once cancelled fifty-two thousand eight hundred shi of grain and two million five hundred thousand strings of cash, sparing the transport households from ruin.