Qing · Official and Scholar

Wu Tingdong 吳廷棟

Died AD 1873

Passages
17
Chapters
1
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Tingdong as an administrator, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 17 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodQing

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Wu Tingdong 吳廷棟 Wu Tingdong
Alternate Tingdong 廷棟 Tingdong
Style Zhuru 竹如 Zhuru

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Uncertain

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Western Year: AD 1873 · Source Date: Text: 同治十二年 · Age: 81
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0193

Age

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1864
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0163
  • Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1866
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0192
  • Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0160
  • Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0151
  • Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1861
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0161
  • Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1873
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0193
  • Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0162
  • Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0131
  • Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1854
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0150
  • Source Date: Text: 道光五年 · Western Year: AD 1825
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:391:s0129
  • Western Interval: Start: AD 1825 · End: AD 1873 · Source Date: Text: 道光五年至同治十二年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0129, qingshigao:391:s0193

Career and standing

  • Office: director in the Board of Punishments · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1825 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0129
  • Office: junior secretary in the Board of Punishments · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1825 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0129
  • Office: prefect of Hejian in Zhili · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1852 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0144
  • Office: Yongding River commissioner · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1853 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0148
  • Office: Zhili provincial surveillance commissioner · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1853 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0148
  • Office: Shandong provincial administration commissioner · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1856 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0151
  • Office: Zhili surveillance commissioner · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1858 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0160
  • Office: Shandong post · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1861 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0161
  • Office: president of the Court of Judicial Review · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1863 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0162
  • Office: vice minister of Punishments · Action: held · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1863 · Source Date: Text: date context from cited unit
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0162
  • Honor: usual mourning honors · Action: granted
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0194
  • Honor: top grade in capital officials' evaluation / 京察一等 · Action: received · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1852 · Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0131
  • Status: retired due to age and illness · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1866 · Source Date: Text: 同治五年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0192
  • Status: lived in clean poverty and accepted no gifts after leaving office
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0198
  • Action: demoted for delayed account submissions · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1858 · Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0160

Places and affiliations

  • Place: Huoshan, Anhui / 安徽霍山
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0128
  • Place: Jiangning / 江寧 · Relation: retired-residence · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1866 · Source Date: Text: 同治五年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0192

Learning and skills

  • Field: Song Neo-Confucian learning / 宋儒之學 · Relation: loved from youth
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0130
  • Credential: tribute student selection / 拔貢 · Action: earned · Date Context: Western Year: AD 1825 · Source Date: Text: 道光五年
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0129

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: integrity and quiet self-restraint · Provenance: Mode: edict
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0194
  • Assessment: upright at court and true to his learning · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0202
  • Kind: learning principle · Statement: learning rested on refusing self-deception
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0196
  • Item: shrines to renowned officials / 名宦祠 · Relation: enshrined in · Places: Zhili / 直隸, Shandong / 山東
    Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0195

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 17 passages
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