Xu Shou 徐壽

Other names

Family

• Child of Father of Xu Shou
  father 父
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 231
• Child of Mother of Xu Shou
  mother 母
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 231
• Parent of Xu Jianyin (建寅)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 3, 251
• Parent of Xu Huafeng (徐華封)
  son 子
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 251

• Kinship Role sons · Count 2
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 251, 257

Career and standing

• Died without office
  Commoner
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 255
• Entered staff
  Staff appointment
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 243

Places and affiliations

• Polity Qing 清 · Relation Biographical subject
  Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 3
• At Wuxi, Jiangsu 江蘇無錫
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 230
• At remote village 僻鄉 · Relation Born at
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 231
• AD 1873 to AD 1874 同治末
  Organization Polytechnic Institute 格致書院 · Relation Co founded · At Shanghai 上海 · With John Fryer (傅蘭雅)
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 250
• Organization Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau 製造局 · Relation Worked at · At Shanghai 上海
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 244

Learning and skills

• Subject Western learning 西學 · Relation Self taught
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 238
• Skill instrument making 製器 · Level renowned
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 238

Works and attributed material

• A Practical Course of Qualitative Analysis 化學考質
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 248
• A Review of Precious Minerals 寶藏興焉
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 248
• Chemical Calculations 化學求數
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 248
• Essentials of Military Arrangements 營陣揭要
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 248
• Illustrated New Western Arts 西藝知新
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 248-249
• On the Alterations of Bodies by Heat 物體遇熱改易說
  Relation Translator compiler
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 248

Events and relationships

• Abandoned examinations for sciences
  AD 1821 to AD 1861 道、咸間 · Scholarly · Student
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 233
• Built wooden steamship Yellow Swan
  Technical · Builder · With Hua Hengfang (華蘅芳), Wu Jialian (吳嘉廉), Gong Yuntang (龔芸棠) · Outcome Completed after several years
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 240-242
• Declined arsenal directorships
  Career · Invitee · At Shandong and Sichuan 山東、四川 · Outcome Sent sons in his place
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 251
• Designed regulations
  Technical · Planner · Daye coal and iron, Kaiping coal, Mohe gold
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passages 252-253
• Established arsenals
  AD 1861 咸豐十一年 · Technical · Participant · At Anqing and Jiangning 安慶、江寧 · With Zeng Guofan (曾國籓)
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 239
• Ground crystal seal prism
  Scientific · Experimenter · Outcome Confirmed seven colors of light
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 236

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment filial · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 231
• Assessment upright and aloof; never sought office · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 255
• plain and unpretentious by nature
  Character
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 232
• Item nitric acid, guncotton, and mercury fulminate 強水棉花藥、汞爆藥 · Relation Produced
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 245
• Item Yellow Swan 黃鵠 · Relation Built
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 242

Source notes

• Thirteen works on law and medicine were also published under the translation program
  Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 505, passage 249