Zhang Guoliang (張國樑)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Guoliang as a general, military officer, and rebel. This record brings together 5 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Guoliang	張國樑	Zhang Guoliang
Changed name	Guoliang	國樑	Guoliang
Changed	Guoliang	國樑	Guoliang
Personal name	Zhang Guoliang	張國樑	Zhang Guoliang
Changed	Zhang Guoliang	張國樑	Zhang Guoliang
Personal name	Zhang Jiaxiang	張家祥	Zhang Jiaxiang
Personal	Zhang Jiaxiang	張家祥	Zhang Jiaxiang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0037, qingshigao:378:s0050, qingshigao:393:s0125, qingshigao:423:s0015

Roles

General
Military Officer
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 咸豐間 · Western Year: AD 1859
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0072
Source Date: Text: 越數年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:378:s0208, qingshigao:378:s0205
Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0125
Source Date: Text: 道光季年 · Western Year: AD 1850
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:133:s0037

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0037

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: recruited-Chaozhou-militia · Place: Chaozhou / 潮州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光季年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1840 · End: AD 1850
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0037
Kind: military · Role: surrendered-rebel · Action: submitted and became Qing general
Explicit · qingshigao:378:s0208, qingshigao:378:s0209

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: force collapsed because militiamen were fierce and unruly · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0037

Source notes

From: Zhang Jiaxiang / 張家祥 · To: Guoliang / 國樑
Explicit · qingshigao:378:s0209
From Name: Zhang Jiaxiang / 張家祥 · To Name: Guoliang / 國樑
Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0125

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 133Volume 133 Treatises 108: Military 4, Local Militia · 1 passage

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及道光季年，張國樑募廣東潮州鄉兵追逐粵寇，轉戰東下，卒以獷悍不馴，遂至潰散。 Near the end of the Daoguang reign, Zhang Guoliang raised Chaozhou militia from Guangdong to chase the Cantonese rebels eastward, but their ferocity proved impossible to control, and the force eventually collapsed and scattered.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 378Volume 378 Biographies 165: Huang Juezi, Jin Yinglin, Chen Qingyong, Su Tingkui, Zhu Qi · 2 passages

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賊中梟傑張家祥者，悔罪投誠，當事猶疑之。 The rebel chieftain Zhang Jiaxiang repented and offered to surrender, but the authorities still distrusted him.

琦知其忠勇可用，以全家保之，乃受降，改名國樑，卒為名將。 Qi judged him loyal and brave enough to use, pledged his own family's safety as guarantee, accepted the surrender, renamed him Guoliang, and he became a famous general.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 1 passage

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撫張家祥收隸部下，改名國樑，後以戰功顯。 He pacified Zhang Jiaxiang and enrolled him in his command, renaming him Guoliang; he later distinguished himself in battle.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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此時廬、鳳、六合賊勢必單，請飭袁甲三、張國樑刻期搗其巢穴，逼令反顧，或令間道為楚師聲援，亦足褫其狂魄。」 Rebel forces at Luzhou, Fengyang, and Liuhe must now be thin. Order Yuan Jiasan and Zhang Guoliang to strike their bases on a fixed schedule, forcing them to turn back, or send them by side routes to support Zeng's army—either move would break the rebels' nerve."