Wu Kedu (吳可讀) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Kedu as an official and scholar. This record brings together 11 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wu Kedu	吳可讀	Wu Kedu
Given	Kedu	可讀
Courtesy	Liutang	柳堂	Liutang
Title	Principal Clerk Wu Kedu	主事吳可讀
Surname	Wu	吳
Personal name	Wu Kedu	吳可讀	Wu Kedu

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0108, qingshigao:465:s0168
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0027, qingshigao:441:s0029, qingshigao:445:s0004

Roles

Official
Scholar

Life and dates

Death

Manner: died remonstrating with his corpse / 以屍諫
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0168
Manner: hanging and poison / 自縊…仰藥死 · Place: Jizhou / 薊州
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0019

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0029, qingshigao:441:s0027
Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0018
Source Date: Text: 光緒初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1875 · End: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:465:s0167, qingshigao:465:s0168
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:133:s0108
Source Date: Text: 穆宗崩，德宗纘業 · Western Year: AD 1875
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0017
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0006

Family

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Parent of Wu Zhihuan (吳之桓)
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

Label: head lecturer at Lanshan Academy / 主講蘭山書院
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0007
Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0010
Label: educational instructor at Fuxiang / 伏羌訓導 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0005
Label: secretary in the Ministry of Punishments / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0006
Label: Department Director in the Ministry of Justice / 刑部員外郎 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0108
Label: Principal Clerk / 主事 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0168
Label: vice director / 員外郎 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0007
Label: secretary in the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部主事 · Action: recalled
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0017
Label: director in the Ministry of Personnel / 吏部郎中 · Action: transferred
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0010
Label: generous posthumous honors / 優恤 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0041
Status: mourning · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0007
Label: demoted three ranks / 鐫三級 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0015

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0108
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0004, qingshigao:445:s0006, qingshigao:465:s0168
Place: Gaolan, Gansu / 甘肅皋蘭
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0004
Place: Jizhou / 薊州 · Relation: buried-at
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0044
Place: Jizhou / 薊州 · Relation: died-at
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0019

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0006
Credential: provincial graduate / 舉人 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0005

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Cheng Lu (成祿)
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0014
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: final memorial asking heir for Muzong
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0019, qingshigao:445:s0020, qingshigao:445:s0021, qingshigao:445:s0022, qingshigao:445:s0023, qingshigao:445:s0024, qingshigao:445:s0025, qingshigao:445:s0026, qingshigao:445:s0027, qingshigao:445:s0028, qingshigao:445:s0029, qingshigao:445:s0030, qingshigao:445:s0031, qingshigao:445:s0032, qingshigao:445:s0033, qingshigao:445:s0034, qingshigao:445:s0035, qingshigao:445:s0036, qingshigao:445:s0037, qingshigao:445:s0038, qingshigao:445:s0039, qingshigao:445:s0040
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: urged exempting foreign envoys from kneeling
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0011

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: organizer · Action: assisted militia against Salar unrest
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0008
Kind: ritual · Role: volunteer · Action: assisted Muzong burial rites at Huiling
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0018
Kind: political · Role: remonstrator · Action: died-remonstrating-over-succession
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0168
Kind: legal · Role: impeacher · Action: listed capital offenses of Cheng Lu · Other Person Id: Cheng Lu (成祿)
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0013
Relation: assistant-to · Person Id: Yue Bin (樂斌)
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0108

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: died remonstrating with his corpse; solitary loyalty · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0218
Assessment: loyal · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0041
Item: shrine at old residence south of the capital / 城南舊宅祠 · Relation: honored-with
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0045

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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所有甘肅省團練事宜，即命陝甘總督樂斌督辦，並命甘涼道蕭浚蘭、刑部員外郎吳可讀、江西候補道楊升幫辦團練。 Governor-General Yue Bin of Shaanxi-Gansu was put in charge of Gansu militia, assisted by Xiao Junlan of the Gansu-Liangzhou Circuit, Wu Kedu of the Ministry of Justice, and Yang Sheng, an expectant circuit intendant from Jiangxi.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 441Volume 441 Biographies 228: Pan Zuyin, Li Wentian, Sun Yijing, Xia Tongshan, Zhang Jiaxiang, Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, Zhang Hengjia · 1 passage

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五年，主事吳可讀以死請為穆宗立嗣，祖廕被命集議，與徐桐等請申不建儲，彝訓疏存毓慶宮。 In the fifth year the clerk Wu Kedu offered his life in a petition to name an heir for Emperor Muzong; Zuyin was ordered to convene deliberation and, with Xu Tong and others, urged adherence to the rule against establishing an heir and preservation of the precedents of the Yuyu Palace.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 445Volume 445 Biographies 232: Wu Kedu, Zhu Yixin, Tu Keshou, An Weijun, Wen Ti, Jiang Chunlin · 8 passages

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吳可讀潘敦儼朱一新屠仁守吳兆泰何金壽安維峻 Wu Kedu, Pan Dunyi, Zhu Yixin, Tu Renshou, Wu Zhaotai, He Jinshou, and An Weijun

吳可讀，字柳堂，甘肅皋蘭人。 Wu Kedu, styled Liutang, was from Gaolan in Gansu.

各國使臣請覲，議禮久未決，可讀請免拜跪，時論韙之。 When foreign envoys sought an audience and court ritual remained unsettled for a long time, Kedu urged that they be excused from kneeling and prostration, and opinion at the time sided with him.

可讀繼陳其罪有可斬者十，不可緩者五，尋逮問，讞上論斬，廷臣請改監候。 Kedu went on to list ten offenses warranting execution and five that could not be delayed. Cheng was soon arrested and tried; when the verdict recommended death, court officials asked that the sentence be commuted to imprisonment awaiting execution.

可讀憤甚，复疏爭：「請斬成祿以謝甘民，再斬臣以謝成祿。」 Furious, Kedu memorialized again: "I beg that Cheng Lu be executed to appease the people of Gansu, and that I be executed afterward to appease Cheng Lu."

逾年，穆宗崩，德宗纘業，起吏部主事。 A year later, after Emperor Muzong died and Emperor Dezong took the throne, Kedu was recalled as a secretary in the Ministry of Personnel.

可讀臨歿遺書與其子之桓，謂出薊州一步即非死所。 On the verge of death Kedu left a letter to his son Zhihuan, saying that one step beyond Jizhou would not be the place to die.

可讀屍諫，幸鑑孤忠。 Kedu died remonstrating with his corpse; may his solitary loyalty be seen.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 1 passage

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主事吳可讀請豫定大統，以屍諫，桐與翁同龢等謂其未悉本朝家法：「當申明列聖不建儲彝訓，俾知他日紹膺大寶之元良，即為承繼穆宗之聖子。 When Principal Clerk Wu Kedu petitioned to settle the succession in advance and died remonstrating, Xu Tong and Weng Tonghe argued he misunderstood dynastic law: "The ancestral rule against naming an heir in advance should be reaffirmed, so all would know the heir who one day receives the throne is the son who succeeds Emperor Muzong.