Qing · Official

Zhou Tianjue 週天爵

Died AD 1853

Passages
30
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhou Tianjue as an administrator, military officer, official, and statesman. This record brings together 30 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Zhou Tianjue 週天爵 Zhou Tianjue
Courtesy Jingxiu 敬修 Jingxiu
Given Tianjue 天爵 Tianjue
Posthumous Wenzhong 文忠 Wenzhong
Surname Zhou 週 Zhou
Personal name Zhou Tianjue 週天爵 Zhou Tianjue
Personal name Zhou Tianjue 週天爵 Zhōu Tiānjué

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Military Officer
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853 · Manner: died of illness in camp / 以疾卒於軍
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:393:s0111

Age

  • Age: 80 · Reckoning: nearly · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0096

Attested activity

Family

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  • Parent of Zhou Guangbi (週光碧)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
  • Parent of Zhou Guangyue (週光岳)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Career and standing

  • Title: acting director-general of grain transport / 漕運總督 · Action: acted-as
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0088
  • Title: acting director-general of the Southern Rivers / 南河總督 · Action: acted-as
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0088
  • Title: acting Imperial Commissioner / 欽差大臣 · Action: acted-as
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0097
  • Title: governor of Anhui / 安徽巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐三年 · Western Year: AD 1853
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0104
  • Title: expectant prefect / 知府候補 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1842
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0087
  • Title: director-general of grain transport / 漕運總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0069
  • Title: Jiangxi judicial commissioner / 江西按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十五年 · Western Year: AD 1835
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0068
  • Title: governor-general of Huguang / 湖廣總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十八年 · Western Year: AD 1838
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0071
  • Title: magistrate of Huaiyuan / 安徽懷遠知縣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光四年 · Western Year: AD 1824
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0061
  • Title: Anhui judicial commissioner / 安徽按察使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0068
  • Title: circuit intendant of Luzhou-Fengyang-Yingzhou-Sizhou / 廬鳳潁泗道 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0066
  • Title: governor of Guangxi / 廣西巡撫 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0091
  • Title: magistrate of Fuyang / 阜陽知縣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0061
  • Title: prefect of Luzhou / 廬州知府 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0066
  • Title: prefect of Suzhou / 宿州知州 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0066
  • Title: Shaanxi provincial treasurer / 陝西布政使 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0068
  • Title: vice-minister of war (rank) commanding Nian suppression / 兵部侍郎銜 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0106
  • Label: Guangxi governor / 巡撫 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0020
  • Title: governor-general rank / 總督銜 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0095
  • Title: fourth-rank button / 四品頂戴 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十二年 · Western Year: AD 1842
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0087
  • Title: second-rank button / 二品頂戴 · Action: conferred
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0088
  • Title: Wenzhong / 文忠 · Action: posthumous-name
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0112
  • Status: exile · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十年 · Western Year: AD 1840
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0085
  • Status: dismissed · Action: entered
    Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0027
  • Status: retirement · Action: ordered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1843
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0089
  • Status: resignation-of-governorship · Action: requested
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0105
  • Label: sentence remitted; retained for Guangdong service / 免罪留粵效力 · Action: pardoned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0086
  • Label: stripped of office and banished to Yili / 褫職戍伊犁 · Action: punished · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十年 · Western Year: AD 1840 · Authority Person Id: Daoguang Emperor (道光帝)
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0085
  • Label: governor-general rank stripped; relieved of military duties / 褫總督銜解軍務 · Action: punished
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0098

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0060
  • Belief: Wang Shouren's learning / 王守仁之學 · Relation: adherent-of
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0062

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: loyal and diligent but did not grasp military essentials · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0172
  • Assessment: loyal, upright, courageous, and far above the common run · Provenance: Mode: edict
    Explicit · qingshigao:393:s0112

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 389Volume 389 Biographies 176: Bai Jun, Lin Kui, Rui Chang, Quan Qing · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 27 passages
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尋言官劾天爵酷刑，與廣義言略同，命侍郎麟魁、吳其濬往按，得天爵信任候補知縣楚鏞用非刑，外委黃雲邦誣執良民諸狀，上震怒，褫天爵職，戍伊犁。 Soon censorial officials impeached Tianjue for cruel punishments, largely echoing Guangyi's charges; Ministers Lin Kui and Wu Qijun were sent to investigate and found that Tianjue had trusted the expectant magistrate Chu Yong, who employed illegal torture, and the external appointee Huang Yunbang, who had falsely arrested innocent civilians; the Emperor was enraged, stripped Tianjue of office, and banished him to Yili.
上震悼，詔嘉其秉性忠直，勇敢有為，心地品行迥超流俗，追贈尚書銜，依贈官賜卹，特諡文忠，不由內閣擬上； The Emperor was deeply grieved; an edict praised his loyal and upright character, his courage and capacity for action, and his moral conduct far above the common run; he was posthumously granted ministerial rank with funeral benefits accordingly, and was specially given the posthumous name Wenzhong without going through the Grand Secretariat's usual proposal;