Qin and Han · Shu Clerk and Student Sent to Capital

Zhang Shu 張叔

Attested BC 141

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Chapters: 1
Histories: 1

Overview

Zhang Shu was a Shu Clerk and Student Sent to Capital.

Life and dates

Attested activity

BC 141 景帝末
Dated from the passage context · Book of Han 101, passages 25-26

References in the histories

Book of Han, Chapter 101Volume 89: Upright Officials · 1 passage

見蜀地辟陋有蠻夷風，文翁欲誘進之，乃選郡縣小吏開敏有材者張叔等十餘人親自飭厲，遣詣京師，受業博士，或學律令。 Shu struck him as backward, almost frontier in manners. To lift it up he picked a dozen sharp young clerks like Zhang Shu, drilled them himself, and sent them to the capital to study under the court academicians or to train in the law codes.