Zu Zhiwang (祖之望) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Zu Zhiwang as an administrator, judge, official, and writer. 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	Zu Zhiwang	祖之望	Zu Zhiwang
Courtesy name	Fangzhai	舫齋	Fangzhai
Given	Zhiwang	之望
Surname	Zu	祖
Personal name	Zu Zhiwang	祖之望	Zu Zhiwang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
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Roles

Administrator
Judge
Official
Writer

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
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Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十三年 · Western Year: AD 1778
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Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1797
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Source Date: Text: 五十八年 · Western Year: AD 1793
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Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
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Source Date: Text: 六十年 · Western Year: AD 1795
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Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
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Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Family

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Child of Father of Zu Zhiwang (祖之望之父)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Zu Zhiwang (祖之望之母)
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: mother
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Kinship Role: parents · Count: 2 · Note: elderly parents
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Career and standing

Label: governor of Shandong / 山東巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1804
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Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十三年 · Western Year: AD 1778
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Label: Shanxi provincial judicial commissioner / 山西按察使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五十八年 · Western Year: AD 1793
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Label: governor of Hunan / 湖南巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
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Label: provincial treasurer of Yunnan / 雲南布政使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六十年 · Western Year: AD 1795
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Label: vice minister of punishments / 刑部侍郎 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Label: minister of punishments / 刑部尚書 · Action: appointed
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Label: principal secretary then director, Ministry of Punishments / 刑部主事、郎中 · Action: appointed
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Label: counselor, Office of Transmission / 通政司參議 · Action: held
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Label: vice minister, Court of Imperial Sacrifices / 太常寺少卿 · Action: held
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Label: vice minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
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Label: provincial judicial commissioner / 按察使 · Action: reappointed-at-lower-rank · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Label: governor of Shaanxi / 陝西巡撫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七年 · Western Year: AD 1802
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Label: provincial treasurer of Hubei / 湖北布政使 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六十年 · Western Year: AD 1795
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Label: governor of Guangdong / 廣東巡撫 · Action: transferred
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Label: peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Status: mourning-for-mother · Action: entered
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Status: resigned-for-illness · Action: left-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十八年 · Western Year: AD 1813
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Status: mourning-for-father · Action: ordered-to-remain-in-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二年 · Western Year: AD 1797
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Status: retired-to-care-for-mother · Action: returned-home
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Status: demoted-for-shielding · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 四年 · Western Year: AD 1799
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Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Pucheng, Fujian / 福建浦城
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Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十三年 · Western Year: AD 1778
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Works and attributed material

Work: Records of What the People Must Know / 三尺須知錄 · Relation: author
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Kind: audience-proposal · Role: speaker · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
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Events and relationships

Kind: ritual · Role: attendee · Action: congratulated-Jiaqing-fiftieth-birthday · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
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Kind: military-admin · Role: administrator · Action: held-Wuchang-during-rebellion · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 嘉慶元年 · Western Year: AD 1796
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Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-Black-Miao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 五年 · Western Year: AD 1800
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Kind: inspection · Role: commissioner · Action: surveyed-floods-with-Nayinbao · Other Person Id: Na Yanbao (那彥寶) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1801
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: served widely in capital and provinces with administrative achievements · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 13 passages

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姜晟金光悌祖之望韓崶 Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, and Han Feng

祖之望，字舫齋，福建浦城人。 Zu Zhiwang, whose courtesy name was Fangzhai, came from Pucheng in Fujian.

上以之望親老，調湖北，俾便迎養。 Because his parents were elderly, the emperor moved him to Hubei so he could care for them more easily.

總督巡撫皆統師出，之望一人留武昌治事，訛言數作，時獲賊諜，偽檄遍通衢。 While the governor-general and governors marched out with the armies, Zhiwang alone stayed at Wuchang to run the province. Rumors flared, rebel agents were caught, and forged proclamations appeared on every street.

之望靜定不驚，防禦要隘，城鄉市鎮設保甲互稽，民心帖然。 He kept his composure, fortified the critical passes, and set up mutual surveillance through baojia in town and country until the people were reassured.

詔以之望雖未與賊戰，坐鎮根本，武、漢無虞，嘉其功，賜花翎。 The court praised him for holding the rear secure though he had not fought in the field, keeping Wuhan safe, and awarded him the peacock feather.

四年，安襄鄖道胡齊崙侵餉事發，命之望察治，齊崙侵蝕餽送，轇轕猝不易究，上切責之，命解任來京。 In 1799 the embezzlement of army pay by Circuit Intendant Hu Qilun of An-Xiang-Yun came to light. Zhiwang was ordered to investigate, but Qilun's diversions of supplies and transport funds proved too tangled to sort out quickly. The emperor rebuked him sharply and ordered him relieved and summoned to Beijing.

及讞定，之望坐徇庇降調。 When the case was decided, Zhiwang was demoted for having shielded him.

上知之望無染指，居官有聲，素諳刑名，以按察使降補。 Knowing he had taken nothing for himself, had a strong reputation, and was expert in criminal law, the emperor reappointed him at the lower rank of judicial commissioner.

七年，命赴山東按皁役之孫冒考，巡撫和瑛誣斷事，和瑛譴罷，即授之望巡撫。 In 1802 he was sent to Shandong to investigate a runner's grandson who had taken the exams fraudulently. Governor Hewang had misjudged the case, was dismissed, and Zhiwang was appointed governor in his place.

大軍剿南山餘孽，之望籌備軍食，安插鄉勇，撫卹災黎，偕總督惠齡奏籌善後事宜甚悉。 While the main forces suppressed rebel remnants in the southern hills, he provisioned the army, settled local militia, and relieved the afflicted. With Governor-General Huiling he submitted a thorough plan for reconstruction.

十四年，仁宗五旬萬壽，之望入都祝嘏。 In 1809, for Jiaqing's fiftieth-birthday celebration, he came to Beijing to offer congratulations.

姜晟、祖之望，敭歷中外，並有政績。 Jiang Cheng and Zu Zhiwang served widely in the capital and provinces and both left solid records of governance.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 353Volume 353 Biographies 140: Da Chun | Son: Sa Bin Tu, Tie Bao Younger Brother: Yu Bao, He Ying, Jue Luo Gui Fang · 1 passage

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上以和瑛日事文墨，廢弛政務，即解職，命鏞從侍郎祖之望往按，得實，褫和瑛職，又以匿蝗災事覺，譴戍烏魯木齊。 The emperor judged that He Ying spent his days on literary pursuits and neglected government, removed him at once, and sent Wang Yong with Vice Minister Zu Zhiwang to investigate. The facts were proved, He Ying was stripped of office, and when a concealed locust disaster also came to light he was sent into exile at Urumqi.