Sui and Tang · Official and Judge

Zhou Xing 周興

Attested AD 684 - AD 691

Passages: 4
Chapters: 2
Histories: 2

Overview

Zhou Xing was an official and Judge.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 684 to AD 691 AD 684-691
Strongly inferred · New Book of Tang 113, passage 145
AD 690 唐…周興
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 19
AD 690 載初元年
Dated from the passage context · Old Book of Tang 85, passage 151

Key source chapters

New Book of Tang, Chapter 113 Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu 3 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142 Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 1 passage

Places and affiliations

Polity Tang 唐 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 19

Events and relationships

Relation Colleague of · Person Lai Junchen (來俊臣)
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 19

Assessments and attributes

Assessment 深文慘刻 / twisted law into cruel severity · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 19

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 1 passage

治獄者雖不盡仁恕，然如漢、唐之張湯、趙禹、周興、來俊臣輩，深文慘刻，無有也。 Those who ran the prisons were not always humane, yet there were none like Zhang Tang and Zhao Yu of Han or Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen of Tang, who twisted the law into cruel severity.

New Book of Tang, Chapter 113Volume 113 Biographies 38: Tang, Zhang, Xu · 3 passages

於是周興、來俊臣、丘神勣、王弘義等揣識後指，置總監牧院諸獄，捕將相，俾相鉤逮，掩搦護送，楚掠凝慘。 Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen, Qiu Shenji, Wang Hongyi, and others divined her intent, set up the supervisory prison system, arrested ministers and generals, forced mutual denunciations, and tortured prisoners with savage cruelty.

秋官侍郎周興劾之曰：「漢法，附下罔上者斬，面欺者亦斬。 Autumn Office vice minister Zhou Xing impeached him: "Han law beheads those who mislead superiors and deceive subordinates, and also those who deceive the throne to its face.

有功居革命之際，周興、來俊臣等掩義隱賊，崇飾惡言，以誣盛德，有功守死明道，身濱殆者數矣，此其賢於釋之明甚。」 Yougong lived in an age of revolution, when Zhou Xing, Lai Junchen, and others concealed villains and twisted words to slander the throne. He held to the Way even at the risk of death, several times on the brink of execution. In this he far surpassed Shizhi."