Responsibility
(author): Hucker, Charles O.
Title
(): A Dictionary of Official Titles in Imperial China
Details
(place)Stanford: (publisher)Stanford University Press, 1985
Identifier
HUCKER
Topics
Comments
This is a standard dictionary for titles in Chinese history; in the database the reference is usually not to the page number but to the entry number in the dictionary.
Information basis
CA
Electronic Version
Referred from
MINISTER: 司空 (p.# 5687)OFFICER: 侍郎 (p.#5278)[ghest of 3 categories in which Court Gentlemen (lang) were divided, with status below Inner Gentleman (zhonglang) but above Gentlemen of the Interior (langzhong); rank=400 bushels. In Later Han 36 Attendant Gentlemen were distributed equally among the Six Sections (liucao) of the Imperial Secreteriat (shangshu tai), as assistants to the Imperial Secretaries (shangshu) who headed the Sections. [...]"...]OFFICER: 中使 (p.# 1600)OFFICER: 刺使 (p.#7567)OFFICER: 廉使 (p.3715, 3269)[ reference to a Surveillance Commissioner, gua1n-cha2-shi3 觀察使), i.e. delegates from the central Government who shared authority as civil governors with Military Commissioners...]OFFICER: 供奉 (p.#3418)[to titles apparently signifying that the officials were fully qualified for the posts indicated but were supernumerary, awaiting vacancies that they might fill. [...] 'For Court Service', an appendix to titles signifying that the officials had been chosen on a rotational basis to be on duty as close attendants of the Emperor."...]OFFICER: 刺吏 (p.#7567)OFFICIAL: 舍人 (p.# 5136)