Wu Shifan (吳世璠) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Shifan as a family member, military officer, rebel, and ruler. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wu Shifan	吳世璠	Wú Shìfán
Personal	Shifan	世璠
Personal name	Wu Shifan	吳世璠	Wú Shìfán
Personal name	Wu Shifan	吳世璠

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:259:s0142, qingshigao:269:s0160

Roles

Family Member
Military Officer
Rebel
Ruler

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十九年 · Western Year: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:259:s0142
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十年 · Western Year: AD 1681
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0160
Source Date: Text: 康熙十九年 · Western Year: AD 1680
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:252:s0178

Family

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Descendant of Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Generation Distance: 2
Kin of Wu Sangui (吳三桂)
Kinship Role: grandson
Child of Parent of Wu Shifan (吳世璠之父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Events and relationships

Kind: biographical-event · Action: offered Fu Honglie a rebel office, which he refused
Explicit · qingshigao:252:s0178

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0160

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 252Volume 252 Biographies 39: Gan Wenkun, Fan Chengmo, Ma Xiongzhen, Fu Honglie · 1 passage

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世璠誘以偽職，弘烈曰：「爾祖未反時，吾已劾奏，料汝家必為叛逆。 Shifan tried to win him with a false commission. Honglie said, "Before your grandfather rebelled I had already impeached him. I knew your family would turn traitor.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 259Volume 259 Biographies 46: Yi Li Bu, Ha Ke San, A Er Hu, Lu Shen, Ya Ji, Kuo Er Kun, Wang Chengye · 3 passages

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吳世璠將何繼祖據石門坎，去安籠所三十里，地僻道險。 Wu Shifan's general He Jizu held Shimenkan, thirty li from Anlong in rough, narrow country.

世璠將胡國柄、劉起龍出拒，承業引守備林廷燏鏖戰，自卯至午，突入賊陣，砲中額，墜馬死。 Shifan's generals Hu Guobing and Liu Qilong sallied forth. Chengye and garrison commander Lin Tingye fought from dawn to noon, broke into the rebel line, took a cannon ball in the forehead, and fell dead from his horse.

攻黃草壩，與桂引敵入谷，伏起，夾擊，斬世璠軍裨將。 At Huangcaoba he and Gui lured the enemy into a valley; ambushers rose and struck from both sides, killing a rebel vice general.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

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吳三桂既死，其孫世璠猶據滇、黔，命佛倫總理糧餉，通鎮遠運道，旋兼理四川糧餉。 After Sangui's death his grandson Shifan still held Yunnan and Guizhou; Folun was put in charge of provisions, opened the Zhenyuan supply route, and soon managed Sichuan as well.