Zhou Xu 周䊸

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0104, houhanshu:116:s0070

Roles

• Administrator
• Judge
• Official

Career and standing

• Label: Prefect of Bohai / 勃海太守 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 建初中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 76 · End: AD 84
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0114
• Label: Chief of Nanxingtang / 南行唐长 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永平中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 58 · End: AD 75
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0107
• Label: Magistrate of Boping / 博平令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0110
• Label: Magistrate of Luoyang / 洛阳令 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0127
• Label: Metropolitan Superintendent / 司隶校尉 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:116:s0070
• Label: Chief Commandant of Cavalry / 骑都尉 · Action: demoted-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0151
• Label: Palace Assistant Imperial Clerk / 御史中丞 · Action: later-appointed
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0136
• Label: Court Architect / 将作大匠 · Action: promoted-to · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 95
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0152
• Label: Chancellor of Qi / 齐相 · Action: promoted-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0112
• Label: Chancellor of the Marquis of Zhaoling / 召陵侯相 · Action: promoted-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0117
• Label: Palace Assistant Imperial Clerk / 御史中丞 · Action: recalled · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 永元五年 · Regnal Year: 5 · Western Year: AD 93
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0142
• Label: Gentleman of the Court / 郎 · Action: restored
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0117
• Label: Clerk under the Commandant of Justice / 廷尉史 · Action: served
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0106
• Label: Colonel Director of Retainers / 司隶校尉 · Action: transferred-to
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0150
• Status: self-seclusion · Action: barred his gate while expecting revenge from the Dou family
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0140
• Action: arrested by halberdiers and sent to the Commandant of Justice's imperial prison after Dou Du's complaint
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0133
• Action: demoted because two prisoners had maggot-infested torture wounds · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年夏 · Regnal Year: 6 · Season: summer · Western Year: AD 94
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0151
• Action: demoted to Magistrate of Boping for killing innocents
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0113
• Action: dismissed after repeated impeachments · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 83
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0135
• Action: dismissed and returned to the countryside following Deng Biao's memorial
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0137, houhanshu:085:s0138
• Action: released on bail after several days
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0134
• Action: summoned to the Commandant of Justice, dismissed, and sent home
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0116
• Action: withheld edicts until subordinate counties completed capital sentences
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0115

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Eastern Han / 東漢 · Relation: served
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0104
• Place: Xu in Xiapi / 下邳徐 · Relation: native-of
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0104

Learning and skills

• Skill: drafting legal charges and regulations / 辞案条教 · Level: model for the province
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0112

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Statement: Denounced the Marquis of Xiayang as unlearned, disloyal, deceptive, and deserving execution, citing Zang Wenzhong, Lü Chan, and Wang Mang. · Other Person Id: Marquis Gui of Xiayang (瑰) · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Zhou Xu (周䊸)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0144, houhanshu:085:s0145, houhanshu:085:s0146, houhanshu:085:s0147, houhanshu:085:s0148, houhanshu:085:s0149
• Kind: proclamation · Role: speaker · Statement: He warned clerks and people that he hated crafty clerks and would destroy powerful criminals. · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Zhou Xu (周䊸)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0108

Events and relationships

• Kind: interrogation · Role: magistrate · Action: arrested and tortured corrupt offenders; none left prison alive
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0111
• Kind: criminal-investigation · Role: investigator · Action: deduced from rice awns and questioning that his aide had planted a mutilated roadside corpse
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0118, houhanshu:085:s0119, houhanshu:085:s0120, houhanshu:085:s0121, houhanshu:085:s0122, houhanshu:085:s0123, houhanshu:085:s0124, houhanshu:085:s0125
• Kind: law-enforcement · Role: magistrate · Action: directed subordinates to target powerful Ma and Dou consort clans rather than petty neighborhood bullies
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0128, houhanshu:085:s0129, houhanshu:085:s0130
• Kind: mass-execution · Role: magistrate · Action: executed several dozen of the county's worst offenders
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0109

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: after the corpse investigation no one dared deceive him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0126
• Assessment: cruel official · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:116:s0070
• Assessment: harsh, grudging of mercy, and devoted to Han Fei's methods · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Other Person Id: Han Fei (韓非)
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0105
• Assessment: incorruptible and without property · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0117
• Assessment: upheld law and opposed corruption and great families, but was excessively cruel · Provenance: Mode: ruler-judgment
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0135

Source notes

• Historicity: historical
  Explicit · houhanshu:085:s0104