Zai Zhen (載振) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zai Zhen as an aristocrat and royal family member. This record brings together 3 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zai Zhen	載振	Zai Zhen
Title	beizi	貝子	Beizi
Title	Prince Zai Zhen	貝子載振
Personal name	Zai Zhen	載振	Zai Zhen
Personal	Zaizhen	載振	Zaizhen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0021, qingshigao:472:s0235

Roles

Aristocrat
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
Explicit · qingshigao:438:s0192
Source Date: Text: 光緒末 · Western Year: AD 1907
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0021
Source Date: Text: 宣統前 · Western Year: AD 1908
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0235

Family

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Child of Prince Qing (奕劻)
Kinship Term: his son / 其子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Status: resignation · Action: resigned concurrent posts
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0021

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 438Volume 438 Biographies 225: Yan Jingming, Zhang Zhiwan, Lu Chuan Lin, Lin Shaonian · 1 passage

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御史趙啟霖劾芝貴，因及慶親王奕劻子載振納賄漁色事，命大臣按驗所劾，稱無左證，褫啟霖職，而芝貴亦由是罷。 Censor Zhao Qilin impeached Zhigui and extended the charge to Prince Qing Yikuang's son Zai Zhen for bribery and debauchery. The court ordered senior ministers to investigate, who reported that there was no corroborating evidence, stripped Qilin of his post, and Zhigui was dismissed as well.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 1 passage

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御史趙啓霖劾奕劻及其子貝子載振受賄納優，命醇親王載灃與家鼐往按，啓霖坐汚衊親貴褫職，而載振尋亦乞罷兼官。 Censor Zhao Qilin impeached Yikuang and his son, the beizi Zaizhen, for taking bribes and keeping actresses. Prince Chun Zaifeng and Jianai were sent to investigate. Zhao Qilin was punished for slandering imperial kin and stripped of office, and Zaizhen soon resigned his concurrent posts as well.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 1 passage

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未幾，貝子載振出皖境，當道命籓庫支巨款供張，曾植不允，遂與當道忤。 Before long Prince Zai Zhen left Anhui; the authorities ordered the provincial treasury to disburse huge sums for his entertainment, and Cengzhi refused, falling out with them.