Qing · Official

Wang Jie 王杰

Died AD 1805

Passages
18
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Jie as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 18 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Jie 王杰 Wang Jie
Given Jie Jie
Surname Wang Wang
Personal name Wang Jie 王杰 Wang Jie
Courtesy name Weiren 偉人 Weiren
Posthumous name Wenduan 文端 Wenduan

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: capital residence / 京邸 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年正月 · Western Year: AD 1805

Age

  • Age: 80 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶九年 · Western Year: AD 1804

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十九年 · Western Year: AD 1774
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0012
  • Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1761
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0006
  • Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十一年 · Western Year: AD 1786
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0018
  • Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十二年 · Western Year: AD 1787
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0019
  • Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十八年 · Western Year: AD 1783
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0062
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶三年秋 · Western Year: AD 1798
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0058
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0074
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二年 · Western Year: AD 1797
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0056
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0061
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0028
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶八年春 · Western Year: AD 1803
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0063
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0080
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年正月 · Western Year: AD 1805
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:340:s0075
  • Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:355:s0032, qingshigao:355:s0034

Family

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  • Ancestor of Wang Du (王篤)
    Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Parent of Wang Du
    Kinship Term: child / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: parent · Object Role: child
    Kinship Term: child / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: parent
  • Child of Father of Wang Jie
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Child of Mother of Wang Jie
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
  • Spouse of Lady Cheng (程)
    Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Subject Role: husband · Object Role: wife

Career and standing

  • Label: clerk/secretary / 書記
  • Label: director of studies at Lantian / 藍田教諭 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: before 乾隆二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1761
  • Label: left censor-in-chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十九年 · Western Year: AD 1774
  • Label: vice minister of justice / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十九年 · Western Year: AD 1774
  • Label: chief tutor of the Upper Imperial Study / 上書房總師傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十一年 · Western Year: AD 1786
  • Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十一年 · Western Year: AD 1786
  • Label: Grand Secretary of the Eastern Pavilion / 東閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十二年 · Western Year: AD 1787
  • Label: manager of the Board of Rites / 管理禮部 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十二年 · Western Year: AD 1787
  • Label: minister of war / 兵部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十八年 · Western Year: AD 1783
  • Label: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Southern Imperial Study duty / 直南書房 · Action: appointed
  • Label: chief minister /首輔 / 首輔 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 仁宗親政 · Western Year: AD 1799
  • Label: Grand Council regular duty / 直軍機 · Action: recalled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二年 · Western Year: AD 1797
  • Label: vice minister of personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十九年 · Western Year: AD 1774
  • Label: preferential commendation for war planning / 優敘 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶三年秋 · Western Year: AD 1798
  • Label: special sacrificial rites / 特賜祭 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
  • Label: enshrined in Shrine of Worthies / 祀賢良祠 · Action: granted
  • Label: portrait in Hall of Purple Splendor / 圖形紫光閣 · Action: received
  • Title: Junior Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
  • Title: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: granted
  • Title: Senior Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: posthumously-granted
  • Status: mourning · Action: entered · Label: mother's mourning / 丁母憂 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十八年 · Western Year: AD 1783
  • Status: mourning · Action: entered · Label: father's mourning / 父喪
  • Status: retired · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
  • Status: relieved-of-duty · Action: granted · Label: relieved of Grand Council, Study, and ministerial duties for leg ailment / 乞免軍機書房及管理部事 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Relation: student-of · Person Id: Sun Jinglie (孫景烈) · Label: Neo-Confucian learning of Lian-Luo-Guan-Min / 濂洛關閩之學
  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1761

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: kindly yet steadfastly upright; won trust through loyalty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: Qianlong-selected trusted minister who withstood Heshen · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: upright and incorruptible; summed up by imperial verse · Provenance: Mode: contemporary-opinion
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: of no more than average stature
  • Item: Qianlong Emperor's jade dove staff / 高宗御用玉鳩杖 · Relation: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶八年 · Western Year: AD 1803

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 340Volume 340 Biographies 127: Wang Jie, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui · 17 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 355Volume 355 Biographies 142: Kui Lun, Guang Xing, Chu Peng Ling · 1 passage