Wang Tingxiang (王廷相)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wang Tingxiang as an official and scholar. This record brings together 9 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 Tingxiang	王廷相	Wáng Tíngxiàng
Courtesy	Meicen	梅岑	Méicén
Given	Tingxiang	廷相
Surname	Wang	王
Personal name	Wang Tingxiang	王廷相	Wáng Tíngxiàng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:467:s0002

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: drowned himself / 赴河死 · Place: Cangtou Bridge / 倉頭橋 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 拳亂 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1897
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Source Date: Text: 二十四年元旦 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Western Year: AD 1887
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Source Date: Text: 拳亂起 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Family

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Parent of Lüfeng (履豐)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin compiler / educational commissioner of Shanxi / 編修督山西學政 · Action: appointed
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Label: censor / 御史 · Action: transferred · Start Date: Source Date: Text: 二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1897
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Label: fifth-rank honorary title and hereditary office / 五品卿，予世職 · Action: granted-posthumously
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Places and affiliations

Place: Chengde, Zhili / 直隸承德
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Place: Shandong / 山東 · Relation: ancestral-register
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Western Year: AD 1887
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Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 467Volume 467 Biographies 254: Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, Shou Shan Zu Sun : Rui Chang, Feng Xiang, Chong Yu · 9 passages

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李秉衡王廷相聶士成羅榮光壽山族孫瑞昌鳳翔崇玉等 Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, and Shoushan's kinsmen Ruichang, Fengxiang, Chongyu, and others

二十三年，會眾戕德國教士，德使海靖要褫秉衡職，編修王廷相力爭之，徙督四川。 In 1897 society members killed a German missionary; Minister von Heyking demanded that Bingheng be removed, but Compiler Wang Tingxiang fought hard on his behalf, and he was transferred instead to governor-general of Sichuan.

廷相慕其名，往訪，遂訂交。 Wang Tingxiang, admiring his reputation, called on him, and the two became close friends.

朝命秉衡詣奉天按事，奏廷相自隨。 The court ordered Bingheng to Fengtian on an inspection tour, and he asked that Tingxiang accompany him.

既至，糾不職者數人，皆廷相微服所詗知者。 On arrival he impeached several negligent officials, every case having been uncovered by Tingxiang in plain clothes.

廷相，字梅岑，直隸承德人，本籍山東。 Wang Tingxiang, styled Meicen, was registered in Chengde, Zhili, though his ancestral home was in Shandong.

時宗室、覺羅官學久廢不葺，廷相謂培材宜自近始，請依八旗官學新章，求實際，議行。 The official schools for the imperial clan and the Aisin Gioro line had long fallen into neglect; Tingxiang argued that cultivating talent should begin at home and asked that the new regulations for the Eight Banners schools be applied in earnest; the proposal was adopted.

國用患不足，計臣議加賦，廷相力申李鴻藻議，為民請命，事遂寢。 With the treasury short, the finance planners proposed raising taxes; Tingxiang strongly backed Li Hongzao's argument and pleaded for the people, and the proposal was shelved.

拳亂起，秉衡出禦聯軍，廷相從。 When the Boxer uprising broke out, Bingheng went out to face the allied armies, and Tingxiang went with him.