Xu Faji (徐法績) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Faji as an official and writer. This record brings together 4 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	Xu Faji	徐法績	Xu Faji
Given name	Faji	法績	Faji
Courtesy name	Xi'an	熙庵	Xi'an
Surname	Xu	徐	Xu
Personal name	Xu Faji	徐法績	Xu Faji

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:377:s0130

Roles

Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十六年 · Western Year: AD 1836
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:377:s0140, qingshigao:377:s0141

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0131
Source Date: Text: 道光九年 · Western Year: AD 1829
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0133
Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0137
Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0140

Family

Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0132

Career and standing

Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0131
Label: Compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0131
Label: Censor / 御史 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光九年 · Western Year: AD 1829
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0133
Label: Vice minister of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺少卿 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0140
Label: Supervising secretary / 給事中 · Action: promoted
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0136

Places and affiliations

Place: Jingyang, Shaanxi / 陝西涇陽
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0130
Place: home (Jingyang area) / 家 · Relation: resided-at
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0132

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1817
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0131

Works and attributed material

Work: Essentials of the Eastern River / 東河要略 · Relation: author
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0139

Events and relationships

Kind: examination · Role: chief-examiner · Action: selected Zuo Zongtang from leftover papers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832 · Other Person Id: Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠)
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:377:s0137, qingshigao:377:s0138
Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: thwarted concealment of Yunnan pay silver · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0137

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: clear integrity · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:377:s0143

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 · 4 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

徐法績，字熙庵，陝西涇陽人。 Xu Faji, whose courtesy name was Xi'an, came from Jingyang in Shaanxi.

十二年，分校會試，同官與吏乘隙為奸，匿雲南餉銀，法績出闈亟按之，謀始沮。 In the twelfth year, while serving as divisional examiner for the metropolitan examination, colleagues and clerks seized an opening for fraud and concealed Yunnan pay silver. Faji left the examination compound and investigated at once, and the plot was thwarted.

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!