Zou Bingtai (鄒炳泰)

Overview

Zou Bingtai was an official and Statesman.

Other names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Courtesy name	Zhongwen	仲文	Zhongwen
Alternate name	Bingtai	柄泰

Life and dates

Death

AD 1820 嘉慶二十五年
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 66

Attested activity

AD 1805 嘉慶十年乙丑
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 187, passages 129, 134
AD 1772 乾隆三十七年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 38
AD 1783 乾隆四十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 40
AD 1820 嘉慶二十五年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 66
AD 1801 嘉慶六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 46
AD 1806 嘉慶十一年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 51

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AD 1807 嘉慶十二年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 52
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 58
AD 1811 嘉慶十六年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 55
AD 1809 嘉慶十四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 53
AD 1805 嘉慶十年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 50
AD 1799 嘉慶四年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 44

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Origins and identity

Han 漢
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 187, passage 134

Career and standing

Left Censor-in-Chief 左都御史
AD 1805 嘉慶十年乙丑 · Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 187, passage 134
Associate Grand Secretary 協辦大學士
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 56
Chancellor of the Imperial Academy 祭酒
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 42
Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent 太子少保
Granted
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 53
Demoted one rank retained
AD 1799 嘉慶間 · Demotion · Authority Jiaqing Emperor (嘉慶帝)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 48
Stripped honor and dismissed retained
AD 1809 嘉慶十四年後 · Demotion
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 54

Places and affiliations

Qing 清
Relation Served
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 187, passage 134
Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 38
At Wuxi, Jiangsu 江蘇無錫
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 37

Learning and skills

Earned
Credential jinshi 進士
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 38

Works and attributed material

Speech · Speaker · Direct quotation
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passages 59-60

Events and relationships

Impeached
Legal · Impeacher · With Yan Peitian (顏培天)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passage 45
Memorialized against
AD 1813 嘉慶十八年 · Political · Opponent · With Hutuli (瑚圖禮)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passages 58, 61

Assessments and attributes

Assessment upright and unyielding; ultimately dismissed despite imperial favor · Mode historian-judgment
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 351, passages 69, 136

References in the histories

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History

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 187Volume 187 Tables 27: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 5 Lower · 1 passage

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熊枚正月辛亥遷。陳大文左都御史。二月辛未遷。鄒炳泰左都御史。五月己亥遷。王懿修左都御史。閏六月壬午遷。秦承恩左都御史。 On the xinhai day of the first month, 熊枚 was transferred. 陳大文: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the xinwei day of the second month, was transferred. 鄒炳泰: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the jihai day of the fifth month, was transferred. 王懿修: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the renwu day of the intercalary sixth month, was transferred. 秦承恩: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 351Volume 351 Biographies 138: Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu Son: Zong Cheng, Huang Yue · 13 passages

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沈初金士松鄒炳泰戴聯奎王懿修子宗誠黃鉞 Shen Chu, Jin Shisong, Zou Bingtai, Dai Liankui, Wang Yixiu (and his son Zong Cheng), and Huang Yue

鄒炳泰，字仲文，江蘇無錫人。 Zou Bingtai, courtesy name Zhongwen, was from Wuxi in Jiangsu.

國學因元、明舊，未立辟雍，炳泰援古制疏請。 The academy still followed Yuan and Ming models and lacked a ceremonial hall; Bingtai memorialized citing ancient precedent.

尋超擢炳泰為祭酒。 Bingtai was soon promoted ahead of schedule to Chancellor of the Imperial Academy.

炳泰慮年年積欠，與同官達慶意不合，自具疏奏，詔斥其偏執使氣，鐫級留任。 Fearing endless accumulated shortfalls, he clashed with colleague Da Qing and memorialized on his own; the emperor rebuked his obstinacy, demoted him one rank, but kept him in office.

倉吏高添鳳盜米事覺，坐久任倉場無所覺察，褫宮銜，降二品頂戴，革職留任，久乃復之。 When granary clerk Gao Tianfeng's theft came to light, Bingtai was blamed for failing to detect it during his long tenure; he lost his honorific rank and second-rank insignia, was dismissed but kept on, and eventually had them restored.

炳泰在吏部久，尤慎銓政。 Bingtai had long served at Civil Appointments and was famously meticulous about personnel decisions.

炳泰力爭曰：「吾年已衰，何戀戀祿位？ Bingtai protested: "I am old—why should I cling to rank and salary?

既而有降革官捐复者二人，準駁不當，侍郎初彭齡論與不合，疏聞，上斥炳泰無定見，鐫級留任。 Later he mishandled two demoted officials seeking reinstatement by purchase; Vice Minister Chu Pengling disagreed, and the emperor rebuked Bingtai's inconsistency, demoted him one rank, and kept him on.

又盜劫兵部主事姚堃於昌平八仙莊，詔以地近京畿，官吏闒茸，不能治盜，罷炳泰兼管府尹事。 When bandits robbed War Ministry secretary Yao Kun near Changping, the emperor blamed local incompetence so close to the capital and stripped Bingtai of his concurrent prefectural duties.

及教匪林清變起，逆黨多居固安及黃村，追論炳泰在官不能覺察，以中允、贊善降補。 When Lin Qing's sectarian rebellion broke out—many rebels lived in Gu'an and Huangcun—the court held that Bingtai should have known; he was demoted to middle academicianship and tutor.

柄泰自初登第，不登權要之門，浮沉館職，久之始躋卿貳。 From his first degree onward Bingtai never cultivated powerful patrons; he lingered in Hanlin posts long before reaching vice-ministerial rank.

鄒炳泰、戴聯奎皆有耿介之操，晚節枯菀乃殊，要不失為端人焉。 Zou Bingtai and Dai Liankui were both men of upright character; their late careers ended differently, yet both remained men of integrity.