Zhao Shuqiao (趙舒翹)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhao Shuqiao as a judge and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhao Shuqiao	趙舒翹	Zhao Shuqiao
Courtesy	Zhanru	展如	Zhanru
Surname	Zhao	趙	Zhao

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Judge
Official

Life and dates

Death

Manner: forced suicide by gold then poison / 賜自盡…飲金…鴆 · Place: Xi'an / 西安 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1901
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
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Source Date: Text: 光緒十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
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Source Date: Text: 同治十三年 · Western Year: AD 1874
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Source Date: Text: 拳匪據涿州 · Western Year: AD 1900
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Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1899
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Source Date: Text: 次年 · Western Year: AD 1901
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Family

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Child of Mother of Zhao Shuqiao (趙舒翹母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son
Spouse of Wife of Zhao Shuqiao (趙舒翹妻)
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage · Relationship State: widowed
Kinship Term: wife / 妻 · Union Category: marriage

Career and standing

Label: supervisor of mining and railways / 督辦礦務、鐵路 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Label: Prefect of Fengyang / 安徽鳳陽府知府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十二年 · Western Year: AD 1886
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Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1899
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Label: Zongli Yamen minister / 總理各國事務衙門 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1899
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Label: Left Vice Minister of Justice / 刑部左侍郎 · Action: appointed
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Label: Principal clerk in Ministry of Justice / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed
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Label: Minister / 尚書 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
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Label: Governor of Jiangsu / 江蘇巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
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Label: Intendant of Wenzhou and Taizhou / 浙江溫處道 · Action: promoted
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Label: Provincial treasurer / 布政使 · Action: promoted
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Label: Vice director / 員外郎 · Action: promoted
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Label: stripped of rank then sentenced to await execution / 褫職留任，尋改斬監候 · Action: sentenced
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Chang'an, Shaanxi / 陝西長安
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十三年 · Western Year: AD 1874
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Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: suppressor · Action: captured-Ye-Zichun · Other Person Id: Ye Zichun (葉子春)
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Kind: legal · Role: judge · Action: reversed-Wang-Shuwen-case · Other Person Id: Wang Shuwen (王樹汶)
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Kind: political · Role: envoy · Action: sent-to-disband-Boxers-at-Zhuozhou · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Western Year: AD 1900
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 9 passages

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徐桐剛毅趙舒翹啟秀英年裕祿毓賢。 Xu Tong; Gang Yi; Zhao Shuqiao; Qi Xiu; Ying Nian; Yu Lu; Yu Xian.

二十六年，拳亂作，命趙舒翹及剛毅馳往近畿一帶查辦解散，及還京覆命，而宣戰詔已先下矣。 In 1900, when the Boxer uprising erupted, Zhao Shuqiao and Gang Yi were dispatched to the capital outskirts to investigate and disperse the movement; by the time they returned to report, the declaration of war had already been issued.

趙舒翹，字展如，陝西長安人。 Zhao Shuqiao, whose style was Zhanru, came from Chang'an in Shaanxi.

是時朝廷矜慎庶獄，以舒翹諳律令，召為刑部左侍郎。 The court was then cautious about ordinary criminal cases and recalled him as Left Vice Minister of Justice for his mastery of law.

拳匪據涿州，舒翹被命馳往解散； When the Boxers occupied Zhuozhou, Shuqiao was sent to disperse them;

聯軍至，李秉衡兵敗，太后乃令王文韶與舒翹詣使館通殷勤，為議款計。 When the allied armies arrived and Li Bingheng's force was routed, the Empress Dowager ordered Wang Wenshao and Shuqiao to visit the legations with courtesies to open peace talks.

文韶以老辭，舒翹曰：「臣望淺，不如文韶！」 Wenshao pleaded old age; Shuqiao said: "My standing is too slight—I am no match for Wenshao!"

次年，各國索益亟，西安士民集數百人為舒翹請命，上聞，賜自盡，命岑春煊監視。 The next year the powers pressed harder; hundreds of Xi'an residents petitioned for his life, but the throne ordered him to take his own life under Cen Chunxuan's supervision.

舒翹故不袒匪，又痛老母九十餘見此慘禍，頗自悔恨。 Shuqiao had never openly sided with the Boxers, yet he was tormented that his mother, past ninety, should see this tragedy, and he bitterly repented.