Overview
Jia Rang was a Han river strategist and author of the Three Strategies.
Life and dates
Attested activity
- c. BC 7 to c. BC 6 哀帝初Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 38, passage 187
Career and standing
- Waiting Appointee 待詔HeldDirectly stated · Book of Han 38, passage 187
Places and affiliations
- Polity Han 漢 · Relation ServedStrongly inferred · Book of Han 38, passage 187
Works and attributed material
- Three Strategies for Controlling the Yellow River 治河三策Relation AuthoredDirectly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 187, 249
- Three strategies memorial · Author · Mode direct-attribution Speaker Jia Rang (賈讓)Directly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 187-188, 217, 223, 248-249
Events and relationships
- Set out upper, middle, and lower strategies for Yellow River controlHydraulic · StrategistDirectly stated · Book of Han 38, passages 187, 217, 223, 248-249
Source notes
- Field source-text · Reading 粳稻 · Rejected Reading 岻稻 · Independent witnesses identify non-glutinous rice, 粳稻.Textual variant · Book of Han 38, passage 244
- Field source-text · Reading 近者 · Rejected Reading 骥者 · The contrast with 遠者 requires 近者, as independent witnesses confirm.Textual variant · Book of Han 38, passage 203
References in the histories
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