A chü-jen of 1657, he later served an exemplary ten months as magistrate of Ch'ang-tzu hsien in Shansi but was then cashiered for negligence in the case of an escaped person.
1976, Sidney L. Greenblatt, editor, The People of Taihang[2], White Plains, NY: International Arts and Sciences Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 78:
Truly, the Communist Party is the savior and benefactor of poor and miserable people. Had the Eighth Route Army come to Ch’ang-tzu a few years earlier, would my mother now be bedridden?
