Zhang Xuan (張絢) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Xuan as a diplomat and official. This record brings together 1 passage from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Xuan	張絢	Zhang Xuan
Personal name	Zhang Xuan	張絢	Zhang Xuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0136

Roles

Diplomat
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 長興初 · Western Year: AD 930
Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:068:s0136

Career and standing

Label: Personnel Bureau Director / 吏部郎中 · Action: held
Explicit · jiuwudaishi:068:s0136

References in the histories

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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 68Volume 68 Book of Later Tang 44: Biographies 20: Xue Tinggui, Cui Yi, Liu Yue, Liu Ye, Feng Shunqing, Dou Mengzheng, Li Baoyin, Gui Ai, Kong, Miao, Zhang Wenbao, Chen Yi, Liu Zan · 1 passage

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長興初，奉使浙中，泛海船壞，水工以小舟救，文寶與副使吏部郎中張絢信風至淮南界，偽吳楊溥禮待甚至，兼厚遺錢幣、食物。 Early in Changxing, on a mission to Zhe, his ship was wrecked at sea and sailors rescued him and his party in small boats. Wenbao and his deputy, Personnel Bureau director Zhang Xuan, drifted on the wind to the Huainan border, where Yang Pu of Wu received them with exceptional courtesy and lavished money and provisions on them.