Ye Shikuan (葉士寬) | 24 Histories

Overview

Ye Shikuan was an official and Administrator.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Yingting	映庭	Yingting

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1736 乾隆初
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 12
AD 1743 八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 12, 22
AD 1734 十二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 6, 9
AD 1720 康熙五十九年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 3-4
AD 1743 父憂歸
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 22, 29
AD 1730 雍正八年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 6

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Child of Father of Ye Shikuan (葉士寬之父)
father 父 · paternal line
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 29

Career and standing

acting prefect of Lu'an 署潞安知府
AD 1730 雍正八年 · Acted as
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 6
acting administrator at Pingyang 署平陽
Acted as
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 8
acting administrator at Taiyuan 署太原
Acted as
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 8
magistrate of Dingxiang, Shanxi 山西定襄知縣
AD 1720 康熙五十九年 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 4
prefect of Shaoxing, Zhejiang 浙江紹興知府
AD 1734 十二年 · Promoted
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 6, 9
department magistrate of Qinzhou 沁州知州
AD 1730 雍正八年 · Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 6

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intendant of the Hang-Jia-Hu circuit 杭嘉湖道
Promoted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 19
prefect of Jinhua 金華
AD 1736 乾隆初 · Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 12
intendant of the Ning-Shao-Tai circuit 寧紹台道
AD 1743 八年 · Transferred
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 12, 22
intendant of the Jin-Qu-Yan circuit 金衢嚴道
Transferred
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 19
outstanding (zhuoyi) 卓異
AD 1734 十二年 · Cited
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 6, 9
living shrine 生祠
Received · At Jinhua 金華
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 18
Never returned to office
AD 1743 遂不出 · Retirement
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 22, 29

Places and affiliations

AD 1720 康熙五十九年
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 4
At Wuxian County, Jiangsu 江蘇吳縣
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 3
AD 1736 乾隆初
At Jinhua 金華 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 12
AD 1743 八年
At Ning-Shao-Tai circuit 寧紹台 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 12, 22
AD 1734 十二年
At Shaoxing, Zhejiang 浙江紹興 · Relation Posted to
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 6, 9
AD 1720 康熙五十九年
At Dingxiang, Shanxi 山西定襄 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 4

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AD 1730 雍正八年
At Lu'an 潞安 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 6
AD 1730 雍正八年
At Qinzhou 沁州 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 6
At Pingyang 平陽 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 8
At Taiyuan 太原 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 8
At Wuxian County 吳縣 · Relation Native of
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 3

Learning and skills

Earned
AD 1720 康熙五十九年 · Credential provincial graduate 舉人
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 4

Works and attributed material

Treatise on Water Conservancy in Eastern Zhejiang 浙東水利書
Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 28
Treatise on Water Conservancy in Eastern Zhejiang 浙東水利書
Relation Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 28
某來時，民飢幾欲死。何忍坐視其悉填溝壑耶？
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation · Addressee Role provincial governor
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 24-25
按冊施賑，是賑冊非賑民也。
Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 13

Events and relationships

Abolished untitled miscellaneous taxes and restored the four gate market
Administrative · Prefect
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 7
Personally directed seawall repairs completed in three months after wind and tide breached the wall
Public works · Supervisor
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 9, 11
Proposed dredging Mirror Lake at Shaoxing and Guangde Lake at Ningbo, but left office before the plan was carried out
Public works · Proposer
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 27
Refused register only relief, registered the hungry in person, exposed two fraudulent claimants, and dispersed impostors
Famine relief · Prefect · At Dongyang 東陽
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 12-17
Returned home for his father's mourning and never took office again
AD 1743 父憂歸 · Mourning · Son
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 22, 29
Rode back from inspecting the Sanjiang sluice and calmed an uproar after a townsman killed a scholar, preventing cancellation of the examinations
Legal · Prefect · At Shaoxing 紹興
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 9-10

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Sought people's grievances, abolished petty harassment, and handled affairs without relying on clerks
Administrative · Magistrate
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 5
Strictly forbade timber merchants from privately opening irrigation dams
Administrative · Intendant · At Quzhou 衢州
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 20-21
Wept and pleaded until flood relief for Shaoxing was reported upward and granted, against the provincial governor's reluctance
Famine relief · Intendant · At Shaoxing 紹興
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 336, passages 22-26

Assessments and attributes

Assessment finest administrative record in Shanxi · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 8
Assessment many beneficent measures during three years at Jinhua · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 336, passage 18

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 336Volume 336 Biographies 123: Ye Shikuan, Chen Mengshuo, Jie Xi, Zhou Fanghao, Jin Rong, Zhang Weiyin, Gu Guangxu, Shen Shanfu, Fang Ang, Tang Shibi, Zhang Chongzhi · 9 passages

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葉士寬陳夢說介錫周方浩金溶張維寅顧光旭 Ye Shikuan, Chen Mengshuo, Jie Xi, Zhou Fanghao, Jin Rong, Zhang Weiyin, and Gu Guangxu

葉士寬，字映庭，江蘇吳縣人。 Ye Shikuan, whose courtesy name was Yingting, came from Wuxian County in Jiangsu.

有惰民格殺士人，眾譁，將罷試，士寬方勘三江閘，馳歸，數言諭解之。 When a shiftless townsman killed a scholar, the crowd erupted in uproar and the examinations were nearly called off. Shikuan was inspecting the Sanjiang sluice at the time; he rode back at once and, with only a few words of persuasion, calmed the disturbance.

東陽饑民求賑者以萬計，士寬曰：「按冊施賑，是賑冊非賑民也。」 In Dongyang, tens of thousands of famine victims came forward seeking relief. Shikuan said, "If we distribute aid strictly by the register, we are feeding the register, not feeding the people."

二人者：一婦人，曾以訟至官，服華服，至是易敝衣乞賑，士寬識之，令褫其敝衣，內華服如故； One was a woman who had once come before him in court dressed in fine clothes; she now wore rags to beg for relief. Shikuan recognized her and had the rags torn away, revealing the same fine garments underneath.

一男子，容甚澤，令飲癰莢汁，嘔出酒肉。 The other was a man with an uncommonly well-fed look; Shikuan made him drink a purgative decoction, and he vomited up wine and meat.

木商入山者，私開壩，水日涸，士寬嚴禁之，民皆稱便。 Timber merchants going into the hills had been opening the dams on the sly, and the stored water dwindled day by day. Shikuan strictly forbade the practice, to the universal relief of the farming population.

士寬曰：「某來時，民飢幾欲死。 Shikuan said, "When I first came here, the people were starving to the point of death.

士寬以待飢而賑常不及，議濬紹興之鑑湖、寧波之廣德湖，會去官，未果。 Believing that waiting until famine struck before distributing aid was always too late, he proposed dredging Mirror Lake at Shaoxing and Guangde Lake at Ningbo, but he left office before the plan could be carried out.