王家 / Wang Jia (Shu Scholar)

Overview

Wang Jia is a Shu commandery scholar in Hanji 713 who follows Wang Hao’s refusal of Gongsun Shu’s hostage-backed summons.

Current Profile

The episode presents Wang Jia as Wang Hao’s paired counterpart. Gongsun Shu tries to force both men into service by holding their families, and Wang Hao kills himself first.

Wang Jia says he is only one step later than Wang Hao and kills himself before Gongsun Shu’s envoy arrives. His profile therefore depends on emulative refusal: Wang Hao sets the moral standard, and Wang Jia refuses to fall behind it.

Key Characteristics

• Shu commandery scholar targeted by Gongsun Shu’s hostage-backed recruitment.
• Paired refuser whose action explicitly follows Wang Hao’s example.
• Office refuser who frames delay itself as a moral failure.
• Evidence point for refusal spreading by peer standard rather than formal command.
• Source-bounded figure within the broader Shu coercive-talent episode.

Evidence

• Paired coercion: Hanji 713 groups Wang Jia with Wang Hao as a Shu commandery target of Gongsun Shu’s family-hostage summons.
• Emulative refusal: Hanji 713 says Wang Jia declares himself one step later than Wang Hao and kills himself before the envoy arrives.

Qualifications

This page follows the episode’s Chinese name form “王家” while using the romanized route Wang Jia. If later notes establish a different canonical spelling, reconcile rather than duplicate.

What Changed

• Created this page to capture the paired Wang Hao/Wang Jia refusal pattern in the Shu scholar material.

Relationships

• 王浩 / Wang Hao (Shu Scholar) - model and paired counterpart for Wang Jia’s refusal.
• 公孙述 / Gongsun Shu (Eastern Han) - ruler whose hostage summons Wang Jia rejects.
• Coerced Talent Legitimacy / 胁迫征士合法性 - concept illustrated by hostage-backed recruitment.
• Principled Office Refusal / 原则性拒仕 - concept illustrated by Wang Jia’s emulative suicide before compelled service.
• Moralized Shi Identity / 士的道德化身份 - concept reinforced by Wang Jia treating delay behind Wang Hao as morally intolerable.