Xu Zhijing (徐致靖) | 24 Histories

Overview

Xu Zhijing was an official and Reform Advocate.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Zijing	子靜	Zijing

Life and dates

Death

Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 38

Age

75
Reckoning Sui
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 38

Attested activity

AD 1897 二十三年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 25
AD 1898 二十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 35; Draft History of Qing 473, passage 73
AD 1876 光緒二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 23
AD 1900 庚子
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 37

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Parent of Xu Renzhu (徐仁鑄)
father 父
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 27
Child of Father of Xu Zhijing (徐致靖父)
son 子
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 25

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Acting right vice minister 權右侍郎
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 34
Compiler 編修
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 23
Reader-in-waiting 侍讀學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 24
Entered
AD 1898 二十四年 · Imprisonment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 36
Received
AD 1900 庚子 · Amnesty
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 37
Sentenced
AD 1898 二十四年 · Lifelong detention
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 36

Places and affiliations

Qing 清
Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 23
At Yixing, Jiangsu 江蘇宜興
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 22
At Wanping 宛平 · Relation Registered at
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 22

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential Presented Scholar 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 23

Works and attributed material

AD 1898 二十四年
Memorial · Author
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passages 28-32

Events and relationships

Relation Recommender of · Person Yuan Shikai (袁世凱)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 32
Relation Recommender of · Person Kang Youwei (康有為)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 30
Relation Recommender of · Person Liang Qichao (梁啟超)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 30
Relation Recommender of · Person Huang Zunxian (黃遵憲)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 464, passage 30

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 473, passage 56

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 464Volume 464 Biographies 251: Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijingzi, Ren Zhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Ceng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong With: Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, Kang Guangren · 10 passages

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李端棻徐致靖子仁鑄陳寶箴黃遵憲曾鉌楊深秀楊銳劉光第譚嗣同唐才常林旭康廣仁李端棻，字苾園，貴州貴筑人。 Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijing, his son Renzhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Zeng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong, Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, and Kang Guangren. Li Duanfen, whose courtesy name was Biyuan, came from Guizhu in Guizhou.

徐致靖，字子靜，江蘇宜興人，寄籍宛平。 Xu Zhijing, whose courtesy name was Zijing, came from Yixing in Jiangsu and was registered at Wanping.

致靖嘗憂外患日迫，思所以為獻納計。 Zhijing had long been troubled by the daily tightening of foreign pressure and pondered how he might advise the throne.

子仁鑄，時以編修督湘學，倡新學，書告致靖舉康有為。 His son Renzhu, then a compiler serving as Hunan's educational commissioner, promoted the new learning and wrote urging Zhijing to recommend Kang Youwei.

致靖遂上言：「國是未定，請申乾斷示從違。」 Zhijing then memorialized: "The nation's course is still unsettled; I ask that Your Majesty's own judgment be made explicit, showing what is to be adopted and what rejected."

未幾，詔果求通才，於是致靖奏有為堪大用，並及梁啟超、黃遵憲等。 Soon an edict did call for broadly talented men; Zhijing then reported that Kang Youwei was fit for high office, and also named Liang Qichao, Huang Zunxian, and others.

罷斥禮部尚書許應騤等阻遏言路，遂命致靖權右侍郎。 Minister of Rites Xu Yingkui and others who had obstructed memorials to the throne were removed, and Zhijing was appointed acting right vice minister.

致靖褫職坐系，尋定永遠監禁，仁鑄亦罷官。 Zhijing was stripped of rank and imprisoned; he was soon sentenced to lifelong detention, and Renzhu was dismissed from office as well.

庚子，聯軍陷京師，致靖始出獄待罪，詔赦免。 In the gengzi year, when the allied armies occupied Beijing, Zhijing was released from prison to await sentence, and an edict granted him amnesty.

深秀乃與徐致靖先後疏請定國是，又以取士之法未善，請參酌宋、元、明舊制，釐正文體，下其議於禮部，尚書許應騤心非之，未奏也。 Shenxiu and Xu Zhijing then submitted successive memorials asking that the national course be fixed; finding the method of selecting talent inadequate, Shenxiu urged that the old systems of Song, Yuan, and Ming be consulted, literary forms standardized, and the matter referred to the Ministry of Rites, but Minister Xu Yingkui privately disapproved and never forwarded the proposal.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei · 1 passage

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二十四年，有為立保國會於京師，尚書李端棻，學士徐致靖、張百熙，給事中高燮曾等，先後疏薦有為才，至是始召對。 In the twenty-fourth year Kang established the Society to Protect the State in the capital; Minister Li Duanfen, Academicians Xu Zhijing and Zhang Baixi, Supervising Secretary Gao Xiezeng, and others successively memorialized recommending Kang's talent; only then was he summoned for audience.