桑迁 / Sang Qian (Western Han)

Overview

桑迁 / Sang Qian enters the wiki through Hanji 402-1 as 桑弘羊’s son, whose flight after the Sang purge triggers the Hou Shiwu harboring case and the later punishment of officials who read the amnesty narrowly.

Current Profile

Sang Qian is not developed as an independent political actor in the source. His importance is legal and relational: he is a fugitive son of a condemned minister, hidden by 侯史吴, later captured and sentenced to death. Huo Guang’s reviewers treat his knowledge of his father’s rebellion and failure to prevent it as enough to make him rebellion-equivalent, which turns those who sheltered or pardoned around him into suspect actors.

Key Characteristics

• Son of Sang Hongyang in the Han Zhao-era purge field.
• Fugitive sheltered by Hou Shiwu after Sang Hongyang’s destruction.
• Death-sentenced figure whose case tests whether an amnesty covers related but previously undiscovered conduct.
• Treated by Huo Guang’s stricter review as rebellion-equivalent because he knew and did not stop his father’s plot.
• Legal hinge connecting Sang Hongyang’s execution to the punishment of Hou Shiwu, Wang Ping, and Xu Ren.

Evidence

Flight and shelter:

• Hanji 402-1 says Sang Qian fled and was hidden at Hou Shiwu’s house.

Sentence:

• Hanji 402-1 says Sang Qian was later captured and sentenced to death.

Legal classification:

• Hanji 402-1 says the stricter review defined Sang Qian as equivalent to a rebel because he knew his father’s rebellion and did not stop it.

Qualifications

This page is bounded to Hanji 402-1. It does not establish Sang Qian’s full office, education, actions before flight, or independent role in the Liu Dan rebellion beyond the episode’s legal classification.

What Changed

• Created from Hanji 402-1 as the fugitive son whose classification drives the harboring-case expansion.

Relationships

• 桑弘羊 / Sang Hongyang (Western Han) - father whose rebellion case creates Sang Qian’s exposure.
• 侯史吴 / Hou Shiwu (Western Han) - person who shelters Sang Qian and later self-surrenders.
• 霍光 / Huo Guang (Western Han) - regent whose review hardens Sang Qian’s legal classification.
• 王平 / Wang Ping (Western Han) and 徐仁 / Xu Ren (Western Han) - officials punished after their narrower treatment of the case.
• 案件扩大化政治清洗 / Case-Expansion Political Purge - concept linked through the expansion from one fugitive to harboring and judicial liability.