Wang Shangzhi (王尚之)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Shangzhi as a military officer. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wang Shangzhi	王尚之

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · beiqishu:014:s0121

Roles

Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 武平五年 · Western Year: AD 574
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0121

Career and standing

Label: chief clerk / Left Assistant of the Field Headquarters / 行臺左丞 · Action: appointed by Sihao · Other Person Id: Sihao (思好)
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0121
Status: executed · Action: boiled alive in the Ye market
Explicit · beiqishu:014:s0133

References in the histories

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Book of Northern Qi, Chapter 14Volume 14 Biographies 6: Guangping Gongcheng; Yangzhou Gong Yongle; Di Zhangbi; Prince of Xiangle, Xiang Guo; Prince of Shangluo, Si Zong; Zi Yuanhai; Di Sihao; Prince of Pingqin, Guiyan; Prince Pu of Wuxing; Changle, Governor of Lingshan; Sizi Fuhu · 2 passages

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思好至陽曲，自號大丞相，置百官，以行臺左丞王尚之為長史。 Sihao reached Yangqu and styled himself grand chancellor. He set up a full bureaucracy and made left assistant of the field headquarters Wang Shangzhi his chief clerk.

暴思好屍七日，然後屠剝焚之，烹尚之於鄴市，令內參射其妃於宮內，仍火焚殺之。 Sihao's corpse was put on display seven days, then butchered, skinned, and burned. Shangzhi was boiled alive in the Ye market. Palace eunuchs were told to shoot Sihao's consort inside the palace — then burn what remained.