Xie Duan 謝端

Other names

Family

• Child of Mother of Xie Duan (謝端之母)
  mourning for his mother 內艱 · Ended
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 276

Career and standing

• Hanlin compiler 翰林修撰
  AD 1324 to AD 1332 尋除 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 282
• vice prefect of Xiangyin Prefecture on the Tanzhou circuit 潭州路同知湘陰州事
  AD 1318 延祐五年 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 278
• doctor of the Directorate of Education 國子博士
  AD 1318 to AD 1321 歲滿 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 279
• school official 校官
  AD 1298 to AD 1318 用薦者署校官 · Appointed · Outcome No response
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 275
• direct Hanlin academician 翰林直學士
  AD 1324 to AD 1332 遂為 · Appointed
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 282
• attendant draftsman 待制
  AD 1324 to AD 1332 升 · Promoted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 282

Places and affiliations

• Polity Song 宋 · Relation Lived under
  Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 271
• Polity Id yuan · Relation Served
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 277
• At Suining in Shu 蜀之遂寧
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 270
• AD 1270 to AD 1279 宋末
  At Jiangling 江陵 · Relation Settled in
  Dated from the passage context · History of Yuan 182, passage 271
• At Jiangling 江陵 · Relation Taught in
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
• At Xiangyin 湘陰 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 278, 283

Learning and skills

• Subject moral principle and ancient-style prose 性理、古文 · Relation Studied
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
• Earned
  AD 1318 延祐五年 · Credential jinshi of the second class 進士乙科
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 277
• Skill fu composition 賦 · Level able-at-age-ten
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 272
• Skill poetry 詩 · Level child-prodigy
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 272
• Skill ancient-style prose 古文
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
• Skill governance and legal judgment 為政、讞
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 283-284

Works and attributed material

• Discourse on Legitimate Succession 正統論
  Co author · With Su Tianjue (蘇天爵)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 290
• imperial edicts and patent letters 制冊
  AD 1330 to AD 1335 至順、元統以來 · Relation Author
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 286
• Discourse on Legitimate Succession 正統論
  Relation Co author · With Su Tianjue (蘇天爵)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 290
• collected biographies of meritorious ministers of successive reigns 累朝功臣列傳
  Relation Compiler
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 287
• Veritable Records of the Wenzong, Mingzong, and Ningzong reigns 文宗、明宗、寧宗三朝實錄
  Relation Compiler
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 287

Events and relationships

• Decided referred lawsuits from neighboring prefectures
  Legal · Judge
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 284
• Dismissed after theft from ancestral temple but did not argue
  Legal · Ritual official
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 280-281
• Drafted added enfeoffment of Confucius parents
  AD 1330 to AD 1335 至順、元統以來 · Ritual documentary · Drafter · With Confucius (宣聖)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 286
• Drafted honorifics enshrinement and enfeoffment patents
  AD 1330 to AD 1335 至順、元統以來 · Ritual documentary · Drafter · With Empress Dowager of Utmost Kindness (慈極)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 286
• Never placed in Kuizhang Pavilion because Wenzong died
  Political · Unemployed candidate · With Emperor Wenzong (文宗)
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passages 288-289
• Passed Henan branch examination but missed palace exam for maternal mourning
  Examination · Candidate
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 276

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment equally famed with Song Ben as Xie and Song · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 273
• Assessment had talent for history · Mode named-source-report
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 287
• Assessment precocious poet and fu writer in childhood · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 272
• Assessment prose strict, restrained, and spare · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 285
• Assessment second among Shu scholars famed for letters in the Yuan, after Yu Ji · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 292
• Assessment skilled at governing; clerks and ruffians dared not abuse the law at Xiangyin · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 283

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · History of Yuan 182, passage 270