Zhang Yushu (張玉書)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Yushu as a historian, official, and statesman. This record brings together 11 passages from 5 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Yushu	張玉書	Zhang Yushu
Given	Yushu	玉書	Yushu
Personal name	Zhang Yushu	張玉書	Zhang Yushu
Personal	Zhang Yushu	張玉書

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:142:s0050
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0165, qingshigao:287:s0068

Roles

Historian
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1688
Explicit · qingshigao:287:s0068
Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
Explicit · qingshigao:271:s0039
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1688
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:269:s0165
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1686
Explicit · qingshigao:270:s0148
Source Date: Text: 康熙二十八年後 · Western Year: AD 1689
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:142:s0050

Career and standing

Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1687
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Label: Grand Secretary / 大學士 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0050

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0050

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: chief-compiler · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:142:s0050

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:269:s0165

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 1 passage

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隨命大學士圖納、張玉書等為總裁。 Grand Secretaries Tuna, Zhang Yushu, and others were then appointed chief compilers.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 269Volume 269 Biographies 56: Suo Etu, Ming Zhu · 1 passage

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御史陸祖修亦劾佛倫袒輔，且言：「九卿會議時，尚書科爾坤等阿佛倫意，尚書張玉書、左都御史徐乾學言興屯所佔民田應還之民，科爾坤置不聞。 Censor Lu Zuxiu also impeached Folun for favoring Fu, stating: "At the Nine Ministers' conference, Minister Ke'erkun and others toadied to Folun's intent; Ministers Zhang Yushu and Left Censor-in-Chief Xu Qianxue said the civilian fields seized for military colonies should be returned to the people, but Ke'erkun paid no heed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 270Volume 270 Biographies 57: Hao Yu, Yang Suyun, Guo Xiu · 1 passage

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下九卿覈奏，尚書張玉書、左都御史徐乾學力言屯田擾民。 The Nine Ministers reviewed the plan. Zhang Yushu and Xu Qianxue argued forcefully that garrison farms would harm the people.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 271Volume 271 Biographies 58: Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Gao Shiqi · 5 passages

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總河靳輔奏下河屯田，下九卿會議，乾學偕尚書張玉書言屯田所佔民地應歸舊業，科爾坤、佛倫勿從。 Jin Fu, director-general of the Yellow River, proposed garrison farming in the lower reaches; the Nine Ministers were convened, and Qianxue with Minister Zhang Yushu argued that seized farmland should be returned to its owners; Kelun and Folun dissented.

三十三年，諭大學士舉長於文章學問超卓者，王熙、張玉書等薦乾學與王鴻緒、髙士奇，命來京修書。 In year 33 the emperor told the Grand Secretaries to nominate men of exceptional literary and scholarly talent; Wang Xi, Zhang Yushu, and others recommended Qianxue along with Wang Hongxu and Gao Shiqi, and the court ordered them to Beijing to work on the histories.

惟大學士張玉書爲監修，尚書陳廷敬爲總裁，各專一類：玉書任志，廷敬任本紀，臣任列傳。 Only Grand Secretary Zhang Yushu served as supervising compiler and Minister Chen Tingjing as chief compiler—Zhang handled the treatises, Chen the annals, and I the biographies.

如是數年，匯分成帙，而大學士熊賜履續奉監修之命，檄取傳稿以進，玉書、廷敬暨臣皆未參閲。 After several years the biographies were assembled, but Grand Secretary Xiong Cilü, who had succeeded to the supervising post, requisitioned the draft biographies for submission without Zhang Yushu, Chen Tingjing, or myself having reviewed them.

不獨臣爲然，前入直諸臣，如熊賜履、葉方靄、張玉書、孫在豐、王士禎、硃彝尊等，近今同事諸臣，如陳廷敬、徐乾學、王鴻緒、張英、勵杜訥等，莫不皆然。 Nor was I alone: earlier men who served in the direct studios—Xiong Cilü, Ye Fang'ai, Zhang Yushu, Sun Zaifeng, Wang Shizhen, Zhu Yizun—and recent colleagues such as Chen Tingjing, Xu Qianxue, Wang Hongxu, Zhang Ying, and Li Dun'e all followed the same rule.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 287Volume 287 Biographies 74: Tong Guo Wei, Ma Qi, A Ling A, Kui Xu, E Lundai · 3 passages

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尋命偕尚書張玉書等勘閱河工。 Soon he was ordered to join Minister Zhang Yushu and others in inspecting river works.

集議日，馬齊先至，張玉書後入，問：「眾意誰屬？」 On the day of deliberation Ma Qi arrived first; when Zhang Yushu entered later he asked, 'Whom does the assembly favor?'

上以問大學士張玉書，玉書乃直舉馬齊語以對。 The emperor questioned Grand Secretary Zhang Yushu, and Yushu frankly repeated Ma Qi's words.