Yuan Chang (袁昶) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yuan Chang as an official, scholar, statesman, and student. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yuan Chang	袁昶	Yuan Chang
Given	Chang	昶	Chang
Courtesy	Shuangqiu	爽秋	Shuangqiu
Posthumous	Zhongjie	忠節	Zhongjie

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:465:s0176
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0061

Roles

Official
Scholar
Statesman
Student
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Manner: execution · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0023, qingshigao:466:s0089, qingshigao:466:s0013
Manner: executed / 死 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0176

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0064, qingshigao:466:s0063
Source Date: Text: 光緒二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1876
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0063
Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0082, qingshigao:466:s0063, qingshigao:466:s0011
Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0023, qingshigao:466:s0013
Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:465:s0176

Career and standing

Label: intendant of Huizhou-Ningguo-Chizhou-Taiping-Guangde circuit / 徽寧池太廣道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0064, qingshigao:466:s0063
Label: principal secretary in the Ministry of Revenue / 戶部主事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1876
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0063
Label: Jiangning financial commissioner / 江寧布政使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0082
Label: Shaanxi judicial commissioner / 陝西按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0082
Label: Director of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 光祿寺卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0083
Label: Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺卿 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0083
Label: third-rank capital official at Zongli Yamen / 三品京堂在總理衙門行走 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0083
Label: Zongli Yamen clerk / 總理各國事務衙門章京 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0063
Label: Director of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺卿 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0011
Label: Zhili financial commissioner / 直隸 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0082
Label: posthumous title Zhongjie / 忠節 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0090

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0061, qingshigao:466:s0063
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0176
Place: Tonglu / 桐廬
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0061
Place: Wuhu / 蕪湖 · Relation: enshrined-at
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0090

Learning and skills

Relation: studied-under · Person Id: Liu Xizai (劉熙載)
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0062
Credential: metropolitan graduate / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1876
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0063
Skill: institutional history / 掌故 · Level: mastered
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0062

Works and attributed material

Work: Jianxi Village Collectanea / 漸西村叢刻 · Relation: compiler
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0091
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: Jiaozhou-policy-memorial · Extent: s0072, s0073, s0074, s0075, s0076, s0077, s0078, s0079, s0080
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0072, qingshigao:466:s0073, qingshigao:466:s0074, qingshigao:466:s0075, qingshigao:466:s0076, qingshigao:466:s0077, qingshigao:466:s0078, qingshigao:466:s0079, qingshigao:466:s0080
Kind: memorial · Role: co-author · Other Person Id: Xu Jingcheng (許景澄) · Action: third-memorial-impeaching-ministers · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0089, qingshigao:466:s0013
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: two-memorials-against-boxers-and-killing-envoys · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0088, qingshigao:466:s0013

Events and relationships

Kind: education · Role: builder · Action: expanded-Zhongjiang-Academy
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0066
Kind: administration · Role: reformer · Action: instituted-reforms-as-intendant · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Regnal Year: 18 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0065, qingshigao:466:s0064
Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: opposed-raising-likin
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0085
Kind: infrastructure · Role: supervisor · Action: repaired-Wuhu-embankment
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0070, qingshigao:466:s0071
Relation: friend-of · Person Id: Xu Jingcheng (許景澄)
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0087

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: death called unjust by the nation · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0176
Assessment: one of the Five Loyal Ones · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0128
Assessment: one of the Three Loyal Ones · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0030
Assessment: praised by the people in song · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0071

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 1 passage

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袁昶、許景澄之死，舉國稱冤，而桐則曰：「是死且有餘辜！」 When Yuan Chang and Xu Jingcheng were executed, the nation called it a miscarriage of justice; Xu Tong said: "They deserved worse than death!"

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 466Volume 466 Biographies 253: Xu Yongyi, Xu Jingcheng, Yuan Chang, Li Shan, Lian Yuan · 11 passages

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二十四年，皇太后再訓政，復直總署，迺密薦太常寺卿袁昶。 In Guangxu 24, after the Empress Dowager resumed rule, he returned to the Yamen and privately recommended Yuan Chang of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices.

用儀、景澄、昶及尚書立山、內閣學士聯元並言：「奸民不可縱，外为不可啟。」 Yongyi, Jingcheng, Chang, Minister Li Shan, and Hanlin Bachelor Lian Yuan jointly declared, "Riotous mobs must not be indulged, and foreign conflict must not be started."

景澄、昶先被害，用儀知不免，意氣自如。 Jingcheng and Chang were executed first; Yongyi knew his end was near yet kept his bearing calm.

浙人祠之西湖，與景澄、昶並稱「三忠」。 Zhejiang gentry built him a shrine at West Lake; with Jingcheng and Chang he was known as one of the "Three Loyal Ones."

袁昶，字爽秋，桐廬人。 Yuan Chang, whose courtesy name was Shuangqiu, came from Tonglu.

膠州事起，下詔求言，昶條列時政二萬餘言，以：「德突據膠灣，其禍急而小； After the Jiaozhou crisis the throne sought advice; Chang submitted more than twenty thousand characters, arguing, "Germany's seizure of Jiaozhou was urgent but small;

昶極言釐金名病商，實病民，不可議增。 Chang insisted likin nominally hurt merchants but really hurt the people and must not be raised.

昶與許景澄相善，廷詢時，陳奏皆谒慨，上執景澄手而泣。 Close to Xu Jingcheng, Chang spoke as bluntly as he at court audiences; the emperor took Jingcheng's hand and wept.

昶連上二疏，力言奸民不可縱，使臣不宜殺，皆不報。 Chang sent two memorials in succession urging that rioters not be indulged and envoys not be killed; neither was answered.

追諡忠節，江南人祠之蕪湖。 Posthumously titled Zhongjie, Loyal and Upright, he was enshrined at Wuhu by Jiangnan gentry.

昶嘗慨士鮮實學，輯農桑、兵、醫、輿地、治術、掌故諸書，為漸西村叢刻。 Lamenting scholars' lack of practical learning, he compiled works on farming, sericulture, war, medicine, geography, statecraft, and precedent as the Jianxi Village Collectanea.