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Wang Jie (Qing dynasty)

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Wang Jie
王杰
Grand Councillor
In office
1786–1797
Grand Secretary of the Eastern Library
In office
1787–1802
Minister of War
In office
22 March 1784 – 7 March 1787
Serving with Fulunggan (until 1784), Fuk'anggan (1784), Qinggui (since 1784)
Preceded byZhou Huang
Succeeded byPeng Yuanrui
Personal details
Born1725
Hancheng county, Shaanxi
Died1805 (aged 79–80)
Beijing
EducationJinshi degree in the Imperial Examination
Occupationpolitician, philosopher
Courtesy nameWeiren (偉人)
Art nameXingyuan (惺園)
Posthumous nameWenduan (文端)

Wang Jie (Chinese: 王杰, 1725–1805), courtesy name Weiren (偉人),[1] was a Chinese politician, scholar and calligrapher of the Qing dynasty. Born in Hancheng county in Shaanxi province, he was celebrated as "the most famous minister from Shaanxi".[2]

Wang obtained the position of zhuangyuan (the jinshi who ranked first) in the imperial examination and was selected a xiuzhuan (修撰) of the Hanlin Academy in 1761. He had served as Secretary of Cabinet (內閣學士), Vice Minister of Justice (刑部侍郎), Junior Censor-in-Chief (右都御史), Minister of War (兵部尚書), and Grand Councillor. Since 1786 he was made the chief tutor of the Palace School (上書房總師傅) for imperial princes, including the later Jiaqing Emperor. He was appointed the Grand Secretary of the Eastern Library in charge of the Ministry of Rites. He had made an exceptional contribution in Pacification of Taiwan and Gorkha, thus his portrait was painted twice in the Hall of Military Merits, known as Ziguangge (紫光閣).[3]

Wang was described as an upright man. Seo Yu-mun (서유문; 徐有聞), a Korean diplomat who had joined the Dongzhi Festival mission (동지사; 冬至使) to Qing China as a Seojanggwan (서장관, 書狀官, the third of the mission) in 1798,[4] reported that "Heshen has been in power for decades. From the local government to the imperial court, almost every minister fawned over him. Wang Jie, Liu Yong, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui (朱珪), Ji Yun, Tiebao (鐵保), Yubao (玉保) and others are exceptions."[5]

Publications

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  • Pao-ch'un ko chi (葆淳閣集; 1815)[6]

References

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  1. ^ "王杰".
  2. ^ "Revelatory Brushwork: A Guided Journey Through the NPM's Collection of Chinese Calligraphy". National Palace Museum.
  3. ^ Works related to 清史稿/卷340 at Wikisource (Draft History of Qing Volume 340)
  4. ^ "서유문 (徐有聞)".
  5. ^ "乾隆、劉墉、和珅、紀曉嵐的真實關係". cctv.com.
  6. ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "Chiang Fan" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.