Overview
The translated histories identify Wang Zhi as an official, scholar, statesman, and writer. This record brings together 44 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Wang Zhi | 王直 | Wang Zhi |
| Nickname | Eastern Wang | 東王 | Dong Wang |
| Surname | Wang | 王 | Wang |
| Personal name | Wang Zhi | 王直 | Wang Zhi |
| Posthumous | Wenduan | 文端 | Wenduan |
| Courtesy name | Xingqian | 行儉 | Xingqian |
| Given | Zhi | 直 | Zhi |
| Personal | Zhi | 直 | Zhi |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Official
- Scholar
- Statesman
- Writer
Life and dates
Death
- Date: Source Date: Text: 天順六年 · Western Year: AD 1462Explicit · mingshi:169:s0244
Age
- Years: 84 · Reckoning: sui · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順六年 · Western Year: AD 1462Explicit · mingshi:169:s0244
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 今上復辟 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0243
- Source Date: Text: 八年正月 · Western Year: AD 1443Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0140
- Source Date: Text: 天順 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0223
- Source Date: Text: 天順六年 · Western Year: AD 1462Explicit · mingshi:169:s0244
- Source Date: Text: 明代 · Western Year: AD 1450Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0028
- Source Date: Text: 景泰元年 · Western Year: AD 1450Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0157
- Source Date: Text: 永樂二年 · Western Year: AD 1404Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0132
- Source Date: Text: 當英、景之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1449 · End: AD 1457Explicit event contextual date · mingshi:169:s0249, mingshi:169:s0250
Family
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- Parent of Child of Wang ZhiParentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: child · Generation Distance: 1
Parentage: biological · Subject Role: child · Object Role: father · Generation Distance: 1 - Ancestor of Si (思)Kinship Term: great-grandson / 曾孫 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: great-grandfather · Object Role: great-grandson
Kinship Term: great-grandson / 曾孫 · Generation Distance: 3 · Line: paternal · Subject Role: great-grandson · Object Role: great-grandfather - Child of Wang Bozhen (王伯貞)Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Parent of Zi (秶)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son - Parent of Wang Zi (資)Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
- Kinship Role: sons and grandsons · Count: 2 · Label: sons and grandsons / 諸子孫 · Count Qualifier: plural-unspecifiedExplicit · mingshi:169:s0242
Career and standing
- Label: Minister of Personnel / 吏部尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年正月 · Western Year: AD 1443Explicit · mingshi:169:s0140
- Label: Junior Grand Tutor / 少傅 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年正月 · Western Year: AD 1452Explicit · mingshi:169:s0211
- Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正統三年 · Western Year: AD 1438Explicit · mingshi:169:s0137
- Label: Hanlin Bachelor / Junior Compiler / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂二年 · Western Year: AD 1404Explicit · mingshi:169:s0132
- Label: Compiler / 修撰 · Action: appointedExplicit · mingshi:169:s0134
- Label: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: appointedExplicit · mingshi:169:s0156
- Label: Grand Preceptor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太師 · Action: appointedExplicit · mingshi:169:s0218
- Label: Ming grand secretary / 明大學士 · Action: heldExplicit · qingshigao:445:s0028
- Title: Grand Guardian / 太保 · Action: bestowed-posthumouslyExplicit · mingshi:169:s0245
- Status: imprisonment · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1446Explicit · mingshi:169:s0141
- Status: retirement · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 天順 · Western Year: AD 1457Explicit · mingshi:169:s0223, mingshi:169:s0224
- Label: pardon / 宥 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1446Explicit · mingshi:169:s0143
Places and affiliations
- Label: Ming / 明 · Relation: servedExplicit · mingshi:169:s0132
- Place: Taihe / 泰和Explicit · mingshi:169:s0118
Learning and skills
- Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永樂二年 · Western Year: AD 1404Explicit · mingshi:169:s0132
Works and attributed material
- Work: Veritable Records of Xuanzong / 宣宗實錄 · Relation: compiler · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 正統三年 · Western Year: AD 1438Explicit · mingshi:169:s0136
- Kind: memorial · Role: authorExplicit · mingshi:169:s0144, mingshi:169:s0145, mingshi:169:s0146, mingshi:169:s0147, mingshi:169:s0148, mingshi:169:s0149, mingshi:169:s0158, mingshi:169:s0159, mingshi:169:s0160, mingshi:169:s0161, mingshi:169:s0162, mingshi:169:s0163, mingshi:169:s0185, mingshi:169:s0186, mingshi:169:s0187, mingshi:169:s0188, mingshi:169:s0189, mingshi:169:s0193, mingshi:169:s0194, mingshi:169:s0201, mingshi:169:s0202, mingshi:169:s0206, mingshi:169:s0207, mingshi:169:s0208, mingshi:169:s0209
- Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Events and relationships
- Kind: personal · Role: participant · Action: farmed and sang with tenant laborers while at home · Label: farmed with tenant laborers, beating drums and singing / 從諸佃仆耕蒔，擊鼓歌唱Explicit · mingshi:169:s0241
- Kind: political · Role: leader · Action: led accession of Jingtai / regency deliberations
- Kind: political · Role: leader · Action: led remonstrance against personal campaign vs EsenExplicit · mingshi:169:s0144, mingshi:169:s0150
- Kind: personal · Role: honoree · Action: received longevity toasts from sons and grandsons · Label: sons and grandsons offered toasts / 諸子孫更叠舉觴上壽Explicit · mingshi:169:s0242
- Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: spoke forthrightly on sending envoys · Label: forthright on sending envoys / 侃侃於遣使之請 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 當英、景之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1449 · End: AD 1457Explicit · mingshi:169:s0250, mingshi:169:s0249
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: advocate · Action: urged envoys to recover Retired Emperor
- Relation: suppressed-by · Person Id: Western Yang (西楊) · Label: kept from serving together in the cabinet / 抑我，令不得共事Explicit · mingshi:169:s0242
- Relation: deferred-to · Person Id: Yu Qian (于謙)Explicit · mingshi:169:s0155
- Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Wang Ying (王英)Explicit · mingshi:169:s0229
- Relation: blocked-by · Person Id: Yang Shiqi (楊士奇)Explicit · mingshi:169:s0230
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: dignity and gravity; stature of a great minister · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · mingshi:169:s0248
- Assessment: grave, imposing, frugal and careful as Minister of Personnel · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
- Assessment: held to correct positions and kept one principle to the end; true elder of the state · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · mingshi:169:s0250
- Kind: physical-description · Statement: square face, long beard, imposing presenceExplicit · mingshi:169:s0225
Source notes
- Statement: Said that had he been in the cabinet when the emperor was restored he would have been banished to Liaoyang and could not have enjoyed leisure with his descendants · Provenance: Mode: self-report · Speaker Person Id: Wang Zhi (王直)Explicit · mingshi:169:s0243
References in the histories
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