成翊世 / Cheng Yishi (late Han)

Overview

成翊世 / Cheng Yishi is a late-Han official whose current profile is source-bounded to the post-Deng transition in Hanji 793. He appears as a commandery official punished for urging Empress Dowager Deng to return power to Emperor An, then restored once An begins personal rule.

Current Profile

The episode groups Cheng Yishi with Du Gen as a return-power remonstrant, but his biography is thinner. Cheng is described as a commandery-level official who advised Empress Dowager Deng to return power to the adult emperor and was punished for that stance. After Deng’s death, Chen Zhong recommends men of integrity, Emperor An accepts, and Cheng Yishi is summoned with Du Gen to the gongche channel.

Cheng’s appointment as shangshulang makes him part of An’s first personal-rule personnel signal. The page does not yet treat him as an independent policy actor; the durable point is that the new regime publicly restores a figure previously punished for pressing the regency-transfer issue.

Key Characteristics

• Return-power remonstrant associated with the demand that Empress Dowager Deng yield governing authority to the adult emperor.
• Commandery official whose punishment places him in the same remonstrance field as Du Gen.
• Post-regency restoration figure summoned after Deng’s death when Emperor An begins personal rule.
• Shangshulang appointee whose reuse marks the court’s early attempt to distinguish new personal rule from the regency’s suppression of transfer demands.

Evidence

• Remonstrance and punishment: Hanji 793 says Cheng Yishi had advised Empress Dowager Deng to return power and was punished.
• Restoration channel: Hanji 793 says Emperor An accepted Chen Zhong’s recommendation and summoned Cheng Yishi through gongche.
• Appointment result: Hanji 793 records Cheng Yishi’s appointment as shangshulang.
• Pairing with Du Gen: Hanji 793 frames both figures as previously punished critics now returned under An’s personal rule.

Qualifications

The current profile rests on one source note and does not establish Cheng Yishi’s family, full career, exact punishment, later policy role, or relationship to all other officials restored after Deng’s death. Yin Yi is named in the same recommendation list but remains source-scoped because the episode gives no durable profile.

What Changed

• Created the page from Hanji 793’s post-Deng personnel restoration layer.

Relationships

• 杜根 / Du Gen (late Han) - parallel return-power remonstrant restored after Deng’s death.
• 和熹邓皇后 / Empress Dowager Deng (late Han) - regent whose delayed return of power Cheng Yishi challenges.
• 汉安帝 / Emperor An of Han - emperor whose personal rule restores Cheng Yishi to office.
• 陈忠 / Chen Zhong (late Han) - shangshu whose recommendation helps bring Cheng Yishi back.
• 直谏入罪 / Direct Remonstrance Criminalization - adjacent concept because Cheng’s return-power advice had been punishable under the regency.
• Regency Under Compound Crisis / 复合危机下的摄政 - broader setting in which Deng’s pressured regency and delayed transfer are judged.