Sui and Tang · Official and Statesman

Yang Shou 楊收

Yáng Shōu

Attested AD 859 - AD 873

Passages
32
Chapters
2
Histories
2

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Shou as a family member, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 32 passages from 2 chapters across 2 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yang Shou 楊收 Yáng Shōu
Courtesy Cangzhi 藏之 Cángzhī
Descriptive kinship Grandfather of Yang She 祖收
Given Shou 收 Shou
Personal 收

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Family Member
  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Age

Attested activity

Family

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  • Ancestor of Yang She (楊涉)
    Kinship Term: grandfather / 祖 · Subject Role: grandfather · Object Role: grandson · Generation Distance: 2 · Line: paternal · Parentage: biological
  • Descendant of Yang Su (楊素)
    Kinship Term: ancestor / 裔 · Line: paternal
  • Sibling of Yang Jia (楊假)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger
  • Sibling of Yang Fa (楊發)
    Kinship Term: elder brother / 兄 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: younger
  • Parent of Yang Yan (楊嚴)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son · Parentage: biological · Line: paternal
  • Child of Yang Yizhi (楊遺直)
    Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Child of Mother of Yang Shou (長孫氏)
    Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yang Ju (楊鉅)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Yang Lin (楊鏻)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Sibling of Yang Yan (楊嚴)
    Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: uncertain · Subject Relative Age: elder
  • Kinship Role: associates punished with exile on his account · Count: 11
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0114

Origins and identity

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Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: became self-important and ostentatious; his dependents committed abuses · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0100
  • Assessment: called a prodigy by the people of Wu · Provenance: Mode: collective-reputation
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0030
  • Assessment: Ma Zhi admired his refusal to precede his elder brother · Provenance: Mode: named-person-assessment · Source Person Id: Ma Zhi (馬植)
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0073
  • Assessment: quiet, broadly learned, exceptionally retentive, and master of many arts · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0034
  • Assessment: refused commissioners’ allowances and left seven million cash in the treasury · Provenance: Mode: narrative-assessment
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0103
  • Assessment: the emperor praised his achievement · Provenance: Mode: named-person-assessment · Source Person Id: Emperor Yizong (懿宗)
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0099
  • Kind: physical-description · Statement: six feet two inches tall, broad forehead, deep jaw, sparse brows and eyes
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0034

References in the histories

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New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 31 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 1 passage
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