Zou Bingtai (鄒炳泰)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zou Bingtai as an official and statesman. This record brings together 14 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	Zou Bingtai	鄒炳泰	Zou Bingtai
Given name	Bingtai	炳泰
Alternate name	Bingtai	柄泰
Courtesy name	Zhongwen	仲文	Zhongwen
Surname	Zou	鄒
Personal name	Zou Bingtai	鄒炳泰	Zou Bingtai
Personal		鄒炳泰

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0037

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1820
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0066

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年乙丑 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1805
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:187:s0129, qingshigao:187:s0134
Source Date: Text: 乾隆三十七年 · Western Year: AD 1772
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0038
Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十八年 · Western Year: AD 1783
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0040
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1820
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0066
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0046
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十一年 · Western Year: AD 1806
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0051
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十二年 · Western Year: AD 1807
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0052
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0058
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十六年 · Western Year: AD 1811
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0055
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0053
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年 · Western Year: AD 1805
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0050
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:351:s0044

Origins and identity

Label: Han / 漢
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:187:s0134

Career and standing

Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十年乙丑 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1805
Explicit · qingshigao:187:s0134
Label: Associate Grand Secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0056
Label: Chancellor of the Imperial Academy / 祭酒 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0042
Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0053
Status: demotion · Action: demoted-one-rank-retained · Authority Person Id: Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶間 · Western Year: AD 1799
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0048
Status: demotion · Action: stripped-honor-and-dismissed-retained · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年後 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0054

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:187:s0134
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0038
Place: Wuxi, Jiangsu / 江蘇無錫
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0037

Learning and skills

Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0038

Works and attributed material

Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Quoted: true
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0059, qingshigao:351:s0060

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: impeacher · Action: impeached · Other Person Id: Yan Peitian (顏培天)
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0045
Kind: political · Role: opponent · Action: memorialized-against · Other Person Id: Hutuli (瑚圖禮) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0058, qingshigao:351:s0061

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: upright and unyielding; ultimately dismissed despite imperial favor · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:351:s0069, qingshigao:351:s0136

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 187Volume 187 Tables 27: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 5 Lower · 1 passage

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熊枚正月辛亥遷。陳大文左都御史。二月辛未遷。鄒炳泰左都御史。五月己亥遷。王懿修左都御史。閏六月壬午遷。秦承恩左都御史。 On the xinhai day of the first month, 熊枚 was transferred. 陳大文: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the xinwei day of the second month, was transferred. 鄒炳泰: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the jihai day of the fifth month, was transferred. 王懿修: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the renwu day of the intercalary sixth month, was transferred. 秦承恩: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 351Volume 351 Biographies 138: Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu Son: Zong Cheng, Huang Yue · 13 passages

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沈初金士松鄒炳泰戴聯奎王懿修子宗誠黃鉞 Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu (and his son Zong Cheng), and Huang Yue

鄒炳泰，字仲文，江蘇無錫人。 Zou Bingtai, courtesy name Zhongwen, was from Wuxi in Jiangsu.

國學因元、明舊，未立辟雍，炳泰援古制疏請。 The academy still followed Yuan and Ming models and lacked a ceremonial hall; Bingtai memorialized citing ancient precedent.

尋超擢炳泰為祭酒。 Bingtai was soon promoted ahead of schedule to Chancellor of the Imperial Academy.

炳泰慮年年積欠，與同官達慶意不合，自具疏奏，詔斥其偏執使氣，鐫級留任。 Fearing endless accumulated shortfalls, he clashed with colleague Da Qing and memorialized on his own; the emperor rebuked his obstinacy, demoted him one rank, but kept him in office.

倉吏高添鳳盜米事覺，坐久任倉場無所覺察，褫宮銜，降二品頂戴，革職留任，久乃復之。 When granary clerk Gao Tianfeng's theft came to light, Bingtai was blamed for failing to detect it during his long tenure; he lost his honorific rank and second-rank insignia, was dismissed but kept on, and eventually had them restored.

炳泰在吏部久，尤慎銓政。 Bingtai had long served at Civil Appointments and was famously meticulous about personnel decisions.

炳泰力爭曰：「吾年已衰，何戀戀祿位？ Bingtai protested: "I am old—why should I cling to rank and salary?

既而有降革官捐复者二人，準駁不當，侍郎初彭齡論與不合，疏聞，上斥炳泰無定見，鐫級留任。 Later he mishandled two demoted officials seeking reinstatement by purchase; Vice Minister Chu Pengling disagreed, and the emperor rebuked Bingtai's inconsistency, demoted him one rank, and kept him on.

又盜劫兵部主事姚堃於昌平八仙莊，詔以地近京畿，官吏闒茸，不能治盜，罷炳泰兼管府尹事。 When bandits robbed War Ministry secretary Yao Kun near Changping, the emperor blamed local incompetence so close to the capital and stripped Bingtai of his concurrent prefectural duties.

及教匪林清變起，逆黨多居固安及黃村，追論炳泰在官不能覺察，以中允、贊善降補。 When Lin Qing's sectarian rebellion broke out—many rebels lived in Gu'an and Huangcun—the court held that Bingtai should have known; he was demoted to middle academicianship and tutor.

柄泰自初登第，不登權要之門，浮沉館職，久之始躋卿貳。 From his first degree onward Bingtai never cultivated powerful patrons; he lingered in Hanlin posts long before reaching vice-ministerial rank.

鄒炳泰、戴聯奎皆有耿介之操，晚節枯菀乃殊，要不失為端人焉。 Zou Bingtai and Dai Liankui were both men of upright character; their late careers ended differently, yet both remained men of integrity.