Shi Tianze

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Shi.

Shi Tianze (Chinese: 史天澤; Wade–Giles: Shih T'ien-tse; 1202 – 5 March 1275) was a general in the early period of the Yuan dynasty of China. Later, he was promoted to the post of deputy prime minister and became the first Han minister of the Yuan dynasty which was ruled by the Mongols. He played a key role in early Yuan politics.

Life

Shi Tianze was a Han Chinese who lived in the Jurchen Jin dynasty. Marriage between classes became common at this time. His father was Shi Bingzhi (Shih Ping-chih) 史秉直. [1] Shi Tianze was married to two high class women, a lower class Han Chinese woman, and his son Shi Gang was born to one of his ruling class wives.[2] His upper class wives' surnames were Mo-nien and Na-ho, and lower class wife was named Shi.[1] Shi Tianze defected to the Mongol Empire's forces upon their invasion of the Jin dynasty. Shi, Zhang Rou (Chang Jou) 張柔, and Yan Shi (Yen Shih) 嚴實 and other high ranking Chinese who served in the Jin dynasty and defected to the Mongols helped build the structure for the administration of the new state.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 de Rachewiltz, Igor, ed. (1993). In the Service of the Khan: Eminent Personalities of the Early Mongol-Yüan Period (1200–1300). Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. p. 41. ISBN 978-3-447-03339-8.
  2. ↑ J. Ganim; S. Legassie (20 March 2013). Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan US. pp. 47–. ISBN 978-1-137-04509-6.
  3. ↑ Chan, Hok-Lam. 1997. “A Recipe to Qubilai Qa'an on Governance: The Case of Chang Te-hui and Li Chih”. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 7 (2). Cambridge University Press: 257–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25183352.


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