Yang Xuan 楊琁

Other names

Family

• Descendant of Yang Mao (楊茂)
  great-grandfather 高祖父 · paternal line · 3 generations
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 197
• Sibling of Yang Qiao (楊喬)
  elder brother 兄 · Full siblings · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 200
• Child of Yang Fu (楊扶)
  father 父 · paternal line
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 199

• Kinship Role relatives · kinsmen who submitted his blood petition to the palace · Quantity unspecified
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 208

Career and standing

• general 將
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passages 216, 222
• Grand Administrator of Lingling 零陵太守
  AD 168 to AD 189 靈帝時 · Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 201
• Deputy Director of the Secretariat 尚書僕射
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 211
• Gentleman Consultant 議郎
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 209
• Grand Administrator of Bohai 勃海太守
  Appointed
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 210
• timely breeze merit reward 景風之賞
  Not bestowed · Negated true · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 216

Places and affiliations

• Polity Eastern Han 東漢 · Relation Served
  Strongly inferred · Book of Later Han 43, passages 213, 222
• At Wushang in Kuaiji 會稽烏傷
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 196
• At Bohai 勃海 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 210
• At Lingling 零陵 · Relation Posted to
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 201

Learning and skills

• Recommended
  Credential Filially Pious and Incorrupt 孝廉
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 201
• Skill military stratagem 譎 · Level effective
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 222

Works and attributed material

• Memorial · Author · blood petition on clothing
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 208
• Memorial · Author · exchanged memorials with Zhao Kai
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 207

Events and relationships

• Defeated bandits with lime wagons
  Military · Commander · At Lingling 零陵
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passages 203-205
• Used stratagem and withdrew troops in good order
  Military · Commander
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 222
• Relation Recommended by · Person Zhang Wen (張溫)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 211
• Relation Rival of · Person Zhao Kai (趙凱)
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passages 206-207, 209

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment labored diligently to fix merit by hardship, yet timely throne rewards went undistinguished while spiteful gossip reached him · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 216
• Assessment unusual governance wherever posted · Mode historian-judgment
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 210

Source notes

• Historicity historical
  Directly stated · Book of Later Han 43, passage 196