Overview
The translated histories identify Xie Xuan as a general, official, and scholar. This record brings together 6 passages from 5 chapters across 3 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Xie Xuan | 謝玄 | Xie Xuan |
| Surname | Xie | 謝 | Xie |
| Personal name | Xie Xuan | 謝玄 | Xie Xuan |
| Personal | Xie Xuan | 謝玄 | |
| Given | Xuan | 玄 | Xuan |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: maleStrongly inferred · songshu:049:s0169
Roles
- General
- Official
- Scholar
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 太元中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 376 · End: AD 396Explicit · songshu:055:s0004
- Source Date: Text: 少時隨謝玄討苻堅 · Western Year: AD 383Explicit event contextual date · songshu:049:s0169
- Source Date: Text: 晉氏喪亂，播遷江左 · Western Year: AD 383Strongly inferred · chenshu:018:s0177
- Source Date: Text: 永初元年 · Western Year: AD 420Explicit event contextual date · songshu:003:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 謝玄破苻堅 · Western Year: AD 383Strongly inferred · liaoshi:104:s0048
Career and standing
- Label: Cavalry General / 車騎將軍 · Action: heldExplicit · songshu:003:s0043
Places and affiliations
- Polity Id: eastern-jin · Relation: servedExplicit · chenshu:018:s0177, songshu:049:s0169
Works and attributed material
- Kind: historian-comment · Role: subject · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · chenshu:018:s0177
Events and relationships
- Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: resisted-enemy · Label: resisted the enemy to guard the altars of state / 抗敵以衛社稷 · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · chenshu:018:s0177
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: routed Fu Jian with eight thousand · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Yelü Zhao (耶律昭)Explicit · liaoshi:104:s0048
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: plain-clothed scholar of gentry repute who rose by merit to the highest offices · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · chenshu:018:s0177
References in the histories
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