Overview
The translated histories identify Wang Tingzhen as an official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 13 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wang Tingzhen | 汪廷珍 | Wang Tingzhen |
| Courtesy | Se'an | 瑟庵 | |
| Personal | Wang Tingzhen | 汪廷珍 | |
| Posthumous | Wenduan | 文端 |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Official
- Scholar
- Teacher
Life and dates
Death
- Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0127
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十四年 · Western Year: AD 1789Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0093
- Source Date: Text: 乾隆六十年 · Western Year: AD 1795Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0096
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0100
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1818Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0114
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十三年三月庚戌 · Western Year: AD 1818Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0268, qingshigao:187:s0273
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0113
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年三月辛未 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0257, qingshigao:187:s0262
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年三月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1820Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0289, qingshigao:187:s0294
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1819Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0115
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0097
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0112
- Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0110, qingshigao:364:s0111
- Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1820Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0116
- Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0127
- Source Date: Text: 道光三年 · Western Year: AD 1823Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0119, qingshigao:364:s0122
- Source Date: Text: 道光二年 · Western Year: AD 1822Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0117
- Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0126
- Source Date: Text: 道光四年 · Western Year: AD 1824Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:364:s0123, qingshigao:364:s0124
Family
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- Child of Father of Wang TingzhenKinship Term: father lost in youth / 孤 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Relationship State: ended
- Child of Mother of Wang Tingzhen (程)Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
- Parent of Wang Baoyuan (報原)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Career and standing
- Office: Acting chancellor of the Hanlin Academy / 署翰林院掌院學士 · Action: appointed acting · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0113
- Office: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十四年 · Western Year: AD 1789Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0093
- Office: Educational commissioner of Anhui / 安徽學政 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0100
- Office: Chief tutor of the Upper Study / 上書房總師傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0113
- Title: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年三月辛未 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0262
- Title: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年三月戊辰 · Western Year: AD 1820Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0294
- Office: Vice-minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0110
- Office: Assistant grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0126
- Office: Educational commissioner of Jiangxi / 江西學政 · Action: appointedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0101
- Office: Vice-minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: demoted for negligence · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1819Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0115
- Office: Hanlin expositor / 侍講 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆六十年 · Western Year: AD 1795Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0096
- Office: Academician of the Grand Secretariat / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted while retainedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0102
- Office: Hanlin reader academician / 侍讀學士 · Action: promoted while retainedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0102
- Office: Minister of the Imperial Stud / 太僕寺卿 · Action: promoted while retainedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0102
- Office: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1818Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0114
- Office: Left censor-in-chief / 左都御史 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0113
- Office: Hanlin expositor academician / 侍講學士 · Action: promotedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0098
- Office: Hanlin reader / 侍讀 · Action: promotedExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0094
- Office: Minister of Rites / 禮部尚書 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾年 · Western Year: AD 1820Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0116
- Office: Educational commissioner of Zhejiang / 浙江學政 · Action: retained after examining · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0112
- Office: Chancellor of the National University / 祭酒 · Action: transferredExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0095
- Honor: senior guardian of the heir apparent / 太子太保 · Action: conferred · Authority Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光三年 · Western Year: AD 1823Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0119, qingshigao:364:s0121
- Honor: posthumous title Wenduan / 文端 · Action: posthumously bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0127
- Honor: grand tutor of the heir apparent / 太子太師 · Action: posthumously conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光七年 · Western Year: AD 1827Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0127
Places and affiliations
- Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
- Place: Shanyang, Jiangsu / 江蘇山陽 · Relation: native-ofExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0088
- Organization: Shrine of Worthy Ministers and Jiangsu local worthies shrine / 賢良祠、江蘇鄉賢 · Relation: enshrined-inExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0127, qingshigao:364:s0128
Learning and skills
- Institution: Upper Study / 上書房 · Relation: served-as-tutor · Student Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0111, qingshigao:364:s0119
- Credential: second place, first rank jinshi / 一甲二名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十四年 · Western Year: AD 1789Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0093
Works and attributed material
- Work: lecture records for Imperial College students / 成均課士錄 · Relation: compilerExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0103
- Work: Licheng bian / 立誠編 · Relation: compilerExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0106
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: rejected comparison with Gongsun Hong by criticizing crooked learning and worldly flattery · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (汪廷珍) · Other Person Id: Gongsun Hong (公孫弘)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0134
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: declined to add writings to earlier explanations of the Six Classics · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (汪廷珍) · Other Person Id: Ruan Yuan (阮元)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0132, qingshigao:364:s0133
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: refused to recommend a showy but insubstantial man as censor · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (汪廷珍)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0136
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: warned a junior that writing apart from the Way would cost him his principles · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (汪廷珍)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0135
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Summary: said his lifelong avoidance of greed and flattery followed his mother’s teaching · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Speaker Person Id: Wang Tingzhen (汪廷珍)Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0131
Events and relationships
- Kind: infrastructure · Role: imperial investigator · Action: inspected the Gaoyan breach, impeached responsible officials, and proposed repairs · Other Person Ids: Wen Fu (文孚), Zhang Wenhao (張文浩), Sun Yuting (孫玉庭) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光四年 · Western Year: AD 1824Explicit · qingshigao:364:s0124, qingshigao:364:s0125
- Kind: educational · Role: teacher · Action: issued five rules of study and transformed scholarly practice
- Kind: administrative · Role: educational commissioner · Action: restored a separate examination quota at Wanzai and ended litigationExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0108, qingshigao:364:s0109
- Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十三年三月庚戌 · Western Year: AD 1818Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0273
- Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年九月壬子 · Western Year: AD 1820Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0294
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: deeply learned, stern in bearing, independent at court, plain and frugal · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Assessment: fulfilled both teacherly and ministerial duties and greatly benefited Xuanzong · Provenance: Mode: quoted-edict · Source Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
- Assessment: his keen judgment was confirmed by later events · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0137
- Assessment: stood with stern integrity at court and was renowned for pure conduct · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · qingshigao:364:s0204
References in the histories
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