Xiong Cili
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Xiong Cili | |
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Minister of Rites | |
In office July 24, 1688 – December 23, 1688 | |
Preceded by | Zhang Shizhen |
Succeeded by | Zhang Yushu |
In office December 12, 1690 – November 25, 1692 | |
Preceded by | Zhang Ying |
Succeeded by | Zhang Ying |
Minister of Personnel | |
In office November 25, 1692 – December 25, 1699 | |
Preceded by | Li Tianfu |
Succeeded by | Chen Tingjing |
Personal details | |
Born | Xiaogan, Hubei | December 13, 1635
Died | 1709, Nanjing, Jiangsu |
Xiong Cili (Chinese:
Biography[edit]
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Xiong hailed from Xiaogan, Hubei. He took the imperial examination in 1657, earning a juren degree and then a jinshi degree in 1685. In 1665 he was promoted from corrector to assistant reader in the Hongwen yuan (
In 1688, Xiong was recalled to office and appointed Minister of Rites. Starting in the 1680s, Xiong became involved in factional struggles in the court, allying himself with Xu Qianxue and Songgotu against Li Guangdi, whom he was jealous of.[1][3] As was custom, Xiong temporarily took leave to mourn his mother who died in the winter of 1688. After completing his mourning, he was appointed Minister of Personnel in 1692. In 1694, he became chief examiner of the Metropolitan Examinations, returning to serve in that role again in 1697, 1700 and 1703. He became a Grand Secretary once more in 1699 and was charged with supervising work on the History of Ming and the compilation of the Pingding shuomo fang lüe, an official account of the Qing campaigns against the Dzungars.[1] Xiong was granted leave to retire in 1703 but remained in the capital to provide occasional advice. He worked on the drafts of the History of Ming in retirement and returned to Nanjing two years later. He died in 1709 and was honoured with posthumous name Wenduan (
Philosophy[edit]
A prominent Neo-Confucian scholar,[3] Xiong was a staunch adherent of the Cheng Brothers. He devoted much effort into proving the doctrines of Wang Yangming unorthodox and considered those philosophers to be 'promiscuous thinkers'.[1]
References[edit]
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- ^ Zhao, Erxun (1928). Wikisource. – via
- ^ a b Zhao, Gang (2013). The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684-1757. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press. p. 156. ISBN 9780824836436.