Qing · Official and Grand Secretary

Wang Shan 王掞

Died AD 1728

Passages
29
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Shan as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 29 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wang Shan 王掞 Wang Shan
Personal name Wang Shan 王掞 Wang Shan
Courtesy name Zaoru 藻儒 Zaoru
Given Shan
Surname Wang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正六年 · Western Year: AD 1728 · Age: Value: 84 · Reckoning: sui

Age

  • Value: 84 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 雍正六年 · Western Year: AD 1728

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:286:s0005
  • Source Date: Text: 康熙五十一年 · Western Year: AD 1712
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:286:s0022
  • Source Date: Text: 雍正元年 · Western Year: AD 1723
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:286:s0059
  • Source Date: Text: 雍正六年 · Western Year: AD 1728
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:286:s0063

Family

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  • Child of Wang Xijue (王錫爵)
    Kinship Term: grandson / 孫 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: grandson · Object Role: grandfather · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal
  • Parent of Wang Yiqing (王奕清)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Wang Yihong (王奕鴻)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Label: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙三十年 · Western Year: AD 1691
  • Label: Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Pavilion / 文淵閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙五十一年 · Western Year: AD 1712

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: requested-heir · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙五十六年 · Western Year: AD 1717

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: earnest loyalty without other intent · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 286Volume 286 Biographies 73: Wang Shan, Lao Zhibian, Zhu Tianbao, Tao Yi · 29 passages
既而御史陶彝等十二人連名入奏,上疑出掞意,大怒,召諸王大臣,降旨責掞植黨希榮,且謂:「錫爵在明神宗時,力奏建儲,泰昌在位,未及數月,天啟庸懦,天下大亂,至愍帝而不能守。 Then Censors Tao Yi and eleven others submitted a joint memorial. Suspecting Shan had orchestrated it, the emperor flew into a rage, summoned the princes and senior ministers, and rebuked Shan for faction-building and ambition. He said: "Under the Ming Shenzong, Xijue pressed hard for an heir. Taichang reigned only months. Tianqi was weak, the realm collapsed, and even Chongzhen could not hold the state.