Qing · Official

Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒

Died AD 1723

Passages
30
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Hongxu as a courtier, editor, historian, and official. This record brings together 30 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒 Wang Hongxu
Alternate Duxin 度心 Duxin
Given Hongxu 鴻緒 Hongxu
Personal Hongxu 鴻緒 Hóngxù
Courtesy Jiyou 季友 Jiyou
Surname Wang 王 Wang
Personal name Wang Hongxu 王鴻緒 Wang Hongxu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Editor
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman
  • Writer

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723 · Place: Beijing / 京
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0168

Attested activity

Family

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Career and standing

  • Label: Minister of Works / 工部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1694
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0154
  • Label: Hanlin Reader and Ming history chief compiler / 侍讀充明史總裁 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1682
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0107
  • Label: Daily Lecturer and Recorder / 日講起居注官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 充 · Western Year: AD 1675
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0096
  • Label: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1673
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0094
  • Label: Reader-in-Waiting titular rank / 侍讀學士銜 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 1680
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0098
  • Label: chief metropolitan examiner / 會試典試 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0109
  • Label: chief Shuntian provincial examiner / 順天鄉試主考 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1675
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0095
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0111
  • Label: Grand Secretariat academician / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 累擢 · Western Year: AD 1682
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0108
  • Label: Vice Minister of Revenue / 戸部侍郎 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 累擢 · Western Year: AD 1682
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0108
  • Label: Hanlin Lecturer / 翰林院侍講 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 累遷 · Western Year: AD 1678
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0097
  • Label: Minister of Revenue / 戸部尚書 · Action: transferred-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十七年 · Western Year: AD 1708
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0155
  • Status: released-from-investigation · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1694
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0152
  • Action: retired-at-former-rank · Reason: rebuked for heir nomination / 詔切責休致 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四十七年 · Western Year: AD 1708
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0156
  • Label: impeachment / 彈劾 · Action: suffered · Negated: false
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi second place / 一甲二名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙十二年 · Western Year: AD 1673
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0094

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: among those who most forcefully backed Yinshi · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:287:s0194
  • Assessment: offenses recorded in Guo Xiu memorial per Qianlong order · Provenance: Mode: imperial-order · Source Person Id: Qianlong Emperor (高宗)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0169
  • Assessment: relied on power, formed factions, accepted bribes, and pursued private gain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256
  • Assessment: still finished compilation work despite impeachments—extraordinary fortune · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0257

Source notes

  • From: Duxin / 度心 · To: Hongxu / 鴻緒 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 初名 · Western Year: AD 1673
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0093

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 22 passages
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久之羽翼既多，遂自立門戸，結王鴻緒爲死黨，給事中何楷爲義兄弟，翰林陳元龍爲叔侄，鴻緒兄頊齡爲子女姻親，倶寄以心腹，在外招攬。 In time his followers multiplied; he founded a faction of his own. He bound Wang Hongxu to him as a die-hard ally, took He Kai, a supervising secretary, as a sworn brother, treated the Hanlin academician Chen Yuanlong as kinsman in a patron–nephew bond, and linked his children's marriages to Hongxu's elder brother Xuling. All became his trusted agents, recruiting backers throughout the empire.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 286Volume 286 Biographies 73: Wang Shan, Lao Zhibian, Zhu Tianbao, Tao Yi · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 287Volume 287 Biographies 74: Tong Guo Wei, Ma Qi, A Ling A, Kui Xu, E Lundai · 5 passages
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