Wu Xiaoming (吳孝銘)

Overview

The translated histories identify Wu Xiaoming as an official and statesman. This record brings together 8 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Wu Xiaoming	吳孝銘	Wu Xiaoming
Courtesy name	Boxin	伯新	Boxin
Surname	Wu	吳	Wu
Personal name	Wu Xiaoming	吳孝銘	Wu Xiaoming
Given name	Xiaoming	孝銘	Xiaoming

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Place: at home / 於家
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
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Family

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Child of Mother of Wu Xiaoming
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Label: Councillor of the Office of Transmission / 通政司參議 · Action: appointed
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Label: Grand Council clerk / 軍機章京 · Action: appointed
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Label: Principal clerk in the Ministry of Works / 工部主事 · Action: appointed
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Label: Vice minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 光祿寺少卿 · Action: appointed
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Label: Vice minister of the Court of State Ceremonial / 鴻臚寺少卿 · Action: appointed
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Label: Vice prefect of Shuntian / 順天府丞 · Action: appointed
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Label: Minister of the Imperial Stud / 太僕寺卿 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
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Label: Vice minister of the Imperial Clan Court / 宗人府丞 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
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Label: Director / 郎中 · Action: promoted
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Title: peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: bestowed
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Places and affiliations

Place: Yanghu, Jiangsu / 江蘇陽湖
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: staff · Action: accompanied ministers attacking Huaxian · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: mastered government; proposals matched the moment · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Kind: illness · Statement: fell ill from grief while mourning his mother
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 377Volume 377 Biographies 164: Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, Xu Faji · 8 passages

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鮑桂星顧吳孝銘陳鴻鄂木順額徐法績 Bao Guixing, Gu Chun, Wu Xiaoming, Chen Hong, E Mushune, and Xu Faji

吳孝銘，字伯新，江蘇陽湖人。 Wu Xiaoming, whose courtesy name was Boxin, came from Yanghu in Jiangsu.

十八年，林清之亂甫定，大軍會攻滑縣，孝銘從大臣行，參軍事。 In the eighteenth year, just after Lin Qing's rebellion was suppressed, imperial forces converged on Huaxian. Xiaoming accompanied the commanding ministers and assisted in military planning.

孝銘密言於樞臣曰：「是可行於乾隆時，不可行於今日，行之邊患且益甚。」 Xiaoming told the Grand Council privately, "That might have worked in the Qianlong era, but not today. Carry it out and the frontier crisis will only deepen."

張格爾旋就俘，賜花翎。 Zhang Ge'er was captured soon afterward, and Xiaoming was awarded the peacock feather insignia.

孝銘曰：「茲事當密陳，不宜顯言。 Xiaoming said, "This should be raised in confidence, not proclaimed openly.

孝銘前後在樞廷二十馀年，練於掌故，持議悉合機宜； Xiaoming spent more than twenty years in the Grand Council, mastered institutional precedent, and framed proposals that consistently matched the moment;

吳孝銘通達政體，鄂木順額樸誠持正，陳鴻、徐法績清操相繼，冀挽頹風，而庫藏大獄，卒發於十數年之間，甚矣實心除弊之罕覯其人也！ Wu Xiaoming mastered the workings of government; E Mushune was plainspoken, sincere, and upright; Chen Hong and Xu Faji upheld integrity in succession, hoping to reverse a declining age. Yet the great vault scandals finally erupted within a dozen years. How seldom does one meet a man who earnestly sets out to root out abuses!