Xu Xianqing
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Xu Xianqing | |
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 Xu Xianqing wearing common official uniform | |
| Vice-Minister of Rites | |
| In office 1587-1588 | |
| Monarch | Wanli Emperor |
| Vice-Minister of Personnel | |
| In office 1588-1589 | |
| Monarch | Wanli Emperor |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1537 |
| Died | 1602 (aged 65) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 徐顯卿 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 徐显卿 | ||||||||
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Xu Xianqing (simplified Chinese: 徐显卿; traditional Chinese: 徐顯卿; 1537–1602), courtesy name Gongwang (公望), pseudonym Jian'an (檢庵), was a Chinese statesman in the late Ming dynasty during the reigns of the Longqing and Wanli emperors.
Xianqing's literary work gained him much fame during his lifetime. His poems and essays are later collected and edited into the "Tianyuanlou Ji"(天遠樓集).
Native of Suzhou, Xu was born in a rich family of textile manufacturer.[1] His mother died when he was 12. He passed the final stages of the imperial exams and received his jinshi (進士) degree in 1568 and worked in the Hanlin Academy for many years. In 1584, he was appointed chief of Guozijian, the highest national central educational institution of the Empire.
Xu was one of the main contributors of the final edition of the Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty.
In 1587, Xu was appointed as Vice-Minister of Rites and later became Vice-Minister of Personnel.[2]
