Qing · Official

Xu Qianxue 徐乾學

Died AD 1694

Passages
43
Chapters
5
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Qianxue as a courtier, editor, historian, and official. This record brings together 43 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 Xu Qianxue
Personal Qianxue 乾學
Given Qianxue 乾學 Qianxue
Personal Qianxue 乾學 Qiánxué
Surname Xu 徐 Xu
Personal Xu Qianxue 徐乾學
Personal name Xu Qianxue 徐乾學 Xu Qianxue
Courtesy Yuanyi 原一 Yuanyi

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Courtier
  • Editor
  • Historian
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年前 · Western Year: AD 1694 · Manner: natural · Place: home / 故里
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0082

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Father of Xu Qianxue
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
  • Kin of Gao Shiqi (髙士奇)
    Kinship Term: marriage kin / 姻親 · Union Category: marriage
    Kinship Term: marriage kin / 姻親 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: active
  • Child of Mother of Xu Qianxue
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
  • Parent of Xu Shugu (徐樹穀)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Xu Shumin (徐樹敏)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Xu Shuping (徐樹屛)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Xu Yuanwen (徐元文)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Sibling of Xu Bingyi (徐秉義)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Kinship Role: sons and younger relatives · Quantity: plural-unspecified
    Explicit · qingshigao:275:s0150

Career and standing

  • Label: chief compiler of the History of Ming / 明史總裁官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 充 · Western Year: AD 1673
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0012
  • Label: associate chief compiler of Comprehensive Gazetteer / 一統志副總裁 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 充 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0018
  • Label: associate chief compiler of Qing Institutions / 大淸會典副總裁 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 充 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0018
  • Label: Daily Lecturer and Recorder / 日講起居注官 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 尋復故官 · Western Year: AD 1672
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0007
  • Label: Left Assistant to the Heir Apparent / 左贊善 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 尋復故官 · Western Year: AD 1672
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0007
  • Label: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0004
  • Label: chief metropolitan examiner / 會試典試 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1688
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0033
  • Label: former minister / 原任尚書 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:275:s0150
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0032
  • Label: Grand Secretariat academician / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 擢 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0018
  • Label: Minister of Justice / 刑部尚書 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 擢 · Western Year: AD 1687
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0032
  • Label: Junior Mentor / 詹事 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 是年冬 · Western Year: AD 1684
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0016
  • Label: Reader-in-Waiting / 侍講學士 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 累遷 · Western Year: AD 1673
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0012
  • Label: Vice Minister of Rites / 禮部侍郎 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 遷 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0027
  • Status: posthumously-restored-rank · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十三年 · Western Year: AD 1694
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0082
  • Action: demoted-and-transferred · Reason: failed to admit Han Army Banner papers / 副榜未取漢軍巻 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1672
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0006
  • Action: dismissed-from-active-duty · Reason: resignation accepted / 乞罷 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0051
  • Action: stripped-of-rank · Reason: Xu Sanli charges found baseless against Qianxue; Sanli demoted / 坐三禮所劾無實 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1689
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0062
  • Label: impeachment / 彈劾 · Action: suffered · Negated: false
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi third place / 一甲三名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 康熙九年 · Western Year: AD 1670
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0004

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: debater · Action: argued-against-coin-ban · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1685
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0020
  • Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: contributed-to-downfall · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687 · Other Person Id: Mingzhu (明珠)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0036
  • Kind: political · Role: participant · Action: entered-inner-court-duty · Label: entered direct attendance in turn / 先後入直 · Other Person Id: Gao Shiqi (高士奇)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0255
  • Kind: scholarly · Role: editor · Action: finished-compilation-with-bureau · Label: allowed to keep the compilation bureau and finish editorial work / 得以書局自隨，竟編纂之業
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0257
  • Kind: administrative · Role: subject-of-investigation · Action: impeached-by-Fulata · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1690
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0072
  • Kind: political · Role: accuser · Action: impeached · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687 · Other Person Id: An Shiding (安世鼎)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0035
  • Kind: diplomatic · Role: impeacher · Action: memorialized · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1685 · Other Person Id: Zheng Zaisong (鄭載嵩)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0029
  • Kind: legal · Role: accused · Action: named-in-bribery-case · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687 · Other Person Id: Zhang Qian (張汧)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0043
  • Kind: examination · Role: associate examiner · Action: served · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十一年 · Western Year: AD 1672 · Other Person Id: Cai Qipu (蔡啓僔)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0005
  • Kind: legal · Role: family-member-convicted · Action: son-convicted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十年 · Western Year: AD 1691 · Other Person Id: Xu Shumin (徐樹敏)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0079
  • Relation: patronage-with · Person Id: Zhang Ying (張英) · Description: daily attendance and literary commissions / 日侍左右著作
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0025
  • Relation: factional-ally-of · Person Id: Wang Hongxu (王鴻緒)
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256
  • Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Mingzhu (明珠)
    Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0104

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: credited with orchestrating Mingzhu fall · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0036
  • Assessment: relied on power, formed factions, accepted bribes, and pursued private gain · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0256
  • Assessment: still finished compilation work despite impeachments—extraordinary fortune · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0257

Source notes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 5 passages
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御史陸祖修亦劾佛倫袒輔，且言：「九卿會議時，尚書科爾坤等阿佛倫意，尚書張玉書、左都御史徐乾學言興屯所佔民田應還之民，科爾坤置不聞。 Censor Lu Zuxiu also impeached Folun for favoring Fu, stating: "At the Nine Ministers' conference, Minister Ke'erkun and others toadied to Folun's intent; Ministers Zhang Yushu and Left Censor-in-Chief Xu Qianxue said the civilian fields seized for military colonies should be returned to the people, but Ke'erkun paid no heed.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 35 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 275Volume 275 Biographies 62: Ge Er Gu De, Zhao Shilin, Guo Shilong, Fu Lata, Ma Rulong · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 287Volume 287 Biographies 74: Tong Guo Wei, Ma Qi, A Ling A, Kui Xu, E Lundai · 1 passage
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