Zhang Yinglin (張英麟)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yinglin as an official, scholar, and teacher. This record brings together 13 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	Zhang Yinglin	張英麟	Zhang Yinglin
Given name	Yinglin	英麟	Yinglin
Given	Yinglin	英麟	Yinglin
Surname	Zhang	張	Zhang
Personal name	Zhang Yinglin	張英麟	Zhang Yinglin
Courtesy name	Zhenqing	振卿	Zhenqing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0164
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:441:s0251

Roles

Official
Scholar
Teacher

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乙丑冬 · Western Year: AD 1925
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Age

Age: 88 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乙丑冬 · Western Year: AD 1925
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三十四年 · Western Year: AD 1908
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Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
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Source Date: Text: 乙丑冬 · Western Year: AD 1925
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Source Date: Text: 二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1903
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Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Source Date: Text: 光緒十七年 · Western Year: AD 1891
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Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1874
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Source Date: Text: 同、光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1908
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Source Date: Text: 同治四年 · Western Year: AD 1865
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Source Date: Text: 宣統九年1917年五月十三日 · Western Year: AD 1917
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Source Date: Text: 宣統改元 · Western Year: AD 1909
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Career and standing

Label: inner-palace classical scholar and tutor / 典學內直
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:441:s0248, qingshigao:441:s0251
Label: advisory minister / 顧問大臣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:473:s0056
Title: Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0189

Places and affiliations

Place: Licheng, Shandong / 山東歷城
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Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治四年 · Western Year: AD 1865
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Works and attributed material

Work: Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government lecture chapters / 資治通鑑講章 · Relation: author
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Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: advocate · Action: led Censorate to retain Jiang Chunlin · Other Person Id: Jiang Chunlin (江春霖)
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0183

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: early cultivated integrity of conduct · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Assessment: worthy as a teacher of scholars · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:473:s0056

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 441Volume 441 Biographies 228: Pan Zuyin, Li Wentian, Sun Yijing, Xia Tongshan, Zhang Jiaxiang, Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, Zhang Hengjia · 12 passages

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張英麟張仁黼張亨嘉 Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, and Zhang Hengjia

張英麟，字振卿，山東歷城人。 Zhang Yinglin, courtesy name Zhenqing, was a native of Licheng in Shandong.

英麟甫入直，即乞假歸省。 Yinglin had just entered service when he requested leave to return home to visit his parents.

二十六年，通州試竣回京，兩宮西狩，官吏遷避，英麟獨守學政關防待交替。 In the twenty-sixth year, when the Tongzhou examinations were finished and he returned to the capital, the two palaces fled west; officials fled or hid; Yinglin alone guarded the educational commissioner's seal awaiting his successor.

乘輿回鑾，議變法，英麟言祖宗法制，可整飭不可遽更張。 When the imperial carriage returned, reform was debated; Yinglin argued that ancestral institutions could be rectified but must not be rashly overturned.

英麟嚴衡校，多取績學。 Yinglin examined strictly and selected many men of solid learning.

會改官制，英麟以侍郎遷副都統，漢員授旗官自此始。 When the official system was reformed, Yinglin moved from Vice President to Vice Commandant; from this began the appointment of Han officials to Banner posts.

時議行憲政，許士民上書，英麟必詳審為代達。 When constitutional government was debated and gentry and commoners were permitted to submit memorials, Yinglin always examined them carefully and conveyed them on their behalf.

御史江春霖直劾親貴，斥回原衙門，英麟率全台合疏留之。 When Censor Jiang Chunlin directly impeached imperial kin and was sent back to his original post, Yinglin led the entire Censorate in a joint memorial to retain him.

英麟撰資治通鑑講章以進，皆發明精義，比附近情，冀以誠意相感動，章上，但循故事留覽而已。 Yinglin composed lecture chapters on the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government and submitted them, all elucidating refined meanings and drawing parallels close to human affairs, hoping to move others through sincerity; when the chapters were received, they were only retained for review according to routine.

三年，武昌變起，內閣改制，飭都察院及凡有言責者皆停奏事，英麟嘆息以為奇變。 In the third year the Wuchang uprising erupted; the Grand Secretariat was reorganized and the Censorate and all who bore duty to speak were ordered to cease submitting memorials; Yinglin sighed, taking this as an extraordinary transformation.