Overview
Wang Kai was an aristocrat.
IdentityHistorical · Male
Found inBook of Jin
Life and dates
Attested activity
- AD 265 to AD 291 地即渭陽Dated from the passage context · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
Places and affiliations
- Polity Western Jin 西晉 · Relation Lived underDirectly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
- At Weiyang 渭陽 · Relation Associated withDirectly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
Events and relationships
- Relation Rival in luxury of · Person Shi Chong (石崇)Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
- Relation Rival in extravagance of · Person Wang Ji (王濟)Directly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment heir to hereditary stipends who scorned frugality and soiled public opinion; posthumous renaming could not punish vice · Mode historian-judgmentDirectly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
Source notes
- Historicity historicalDirectly stated · Book of Jin 93, passage 275
References in the histories
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