Ming · Official and Statesman

Xie Sheng 謝升

Attested AD 1644

Passages: 2
Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Xie Sheng was an official and Statesman.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1644 順治元年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 245, passages 39, 41

Career and standing

Grand Secretary 大學士
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 39

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 39

Events and relationships

Asked to resign
AD 1644 順治元年 · Political · Petitioner
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 41
Settled ceremonial music
Ritual · Participant · With Feng Quan (馮銓)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 245, passage 39

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 245Volume 245 Biographies 32: Gang Lin, Feng Quan, Chen Mingxia, Chen Zhilin, Liu Zhengzong · 2 passages

令以大學士原銜入內院佐理機務，與大學士洪承疇疏請復明票擬舊制，又與大學士謝升等議定郊社、宗廟樂章。 He was ordered to enter the Inner Court to assist in state affairs under his former grand secretary title; with Grand Secretary Hong Chengchou he memorialized to restore the Ming practice of drafting memorials with approval slips, and with Grand Secretary Xie Sheng and others he also settled the ceremonial music for suburban sacrifices and the ancestral temple.

銓與升、承疇乞罷，諭令益殫忠猷，以襄新治。 Quan, together with Sheng and Chengchou, asked to resign; an edict ordered them instead to devote themselves more fully and assist the new regime.