Wei Zhouzuo

{{family name hatnote|Wei|lang=Chinese}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Wei Zhouzuo
{{nobold|衛周祚}}

| image =

| image_size = 200px

| order = Grand Secretary of the Baohe Hall

| term = 1672

| predecessor =

| successor =

| order1 = Grand Secretary of the Palace Historiographic Academy

| term1 = 1661–1669

| predecessor1 =

| successor1 =

| order2 = Grand Secretary of the Wenyuan Library

| term2 = 1658–1661

| predecessor2 =

| successor2 =

| order3 = Grand Secretary of the Palace Academy for the Advancement of Literature

| term3 = 1658

| predecessor3 =

| successor3 =

| office4 = Minister of Personnel

| term_start4 = June 7

| term_end4 = June 27, 1658

| alongside4 = Ke'erkun

| predecessor4 = Wang Yongji

| successor4 = Sun Tingquan

| birth_date = {{birth year|1612}}

| birth_place = Quwo County, Shanxi, Ming China

| death_date = {{death year and age|1675|1612}}

| death_place = Beijing, Qing China

}}

Wei Zhouzuo ({{zh|t=衛周祚|s=卫周祚|p=Wèi Zhōuzuò}}) (1612–1675), courtesy name Wenxi ({{zh|t=文錫|s=文锡|p=Wénxī}}), art name Wenshi ({{zh|t=聞石|s=闻石|p=Wénshí}}), was an official who served in the late Ming dynasty and early Qing dynasty.{{cite book

|title=中国历代宰相传略

|year=1997

|author= 朱绍侯

|isbn=9787534713989

|language=zh

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QelzAAAAIAAJ&q=%E8%A1%9B%E5%91%A8%E7%A5%9A+1612+%E6%96%87%E9%94%A1

|page=1412}} He was a native of Chengnei (城內). He took the imperial examination and obtained a jinshi degree in 1637 during the reign of the Chongzhen Emperor.

After the fall of the Ming dynasty, Wei served under the Qing in various capacities.{{cite book

|title=The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-Century China

|year=1985

|author= Frederic Wakeman Jr.

|isbn=0520048040

|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8nXLwSG2O8AC&pg=PA418

|page=418}} In 1653, he was named Vice-President of Punishments, in 1654 President of Works, and in 1658 President of Civil Appointments, as well as Grand Secretary. In 1660 he worked with the Qing noble Bahana to revise the Great Qing Legal Code.

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