| Wang Jie | |
| Office: | Grand Councillor |
| Term Start: | 1786 |
| Term End: | 1797 |
| Office1: | Grand Secretary of the Eastern Library |
| Term Start1: | 1787 |
| Term End1: | 1802 |
| Office2: | Minister of War |
| Term Start2: | 22 March 1784 |
| Term End2: | 7 March 1787 |
| Alongside2: | Fulunggan (until 1784), Fuk'anggan (1784), Qinggui (since 1784) |
| Predecessor2: | Zhou Huang |
| Successor2: | Peng Yuanrui |
| Occupation: | politician, philosopher |
| Education: | Jinshi degree in the Imperial Examination |
| Birth Date: | 1725 |
| Birth Place: | Hancheng county, Shaanxi |
| Death Place: | Beijing |
| Blank1: | Courtesy name |
| Data1: | Weiren (偉人) |
| Blank2: | Art name |
| Data2: | Xingyuan (惺園) |
| Blank3: | Posthumous name |
| Data3: | Wenduan (文端) |
Wang Jie (1725–1805), courtesy name Weiren (偉人),[1] was a Chinese politician, scholar and calligrapher of the Qing dynasty. Born in Hancheng county in Shaanxi province, he was celebrated as "the most famous minister from Shaanxi".[2]
Wang obtained the position of zhuangyuan (the jinshi who ranked first) in the imperial examination and was selected a xiuzhuan (修撰) of the Hanlin Academy in 1761. He had served as Secretary of Cabinet (內閣學士), Vice Minister of Justice (刑部侍郎), Junior Censor-in-Chief (右都御史), Minister of War (兵部尚書), and Grand Councillor. Since 1786 he was made the chief tutor of the Palace School (上書房總師傅) for imperial princes, including the later Jiaqing Emperor. He was appointed the Grand Secretary of the Eastern Library in charge of the Ministry of Rites. He had made an exceptional contribution in Pacification of Taiwan and Gorkha, thus his portrait was painted twice in the Hall of Military Merits, known as Ziguangge (紫光閣).[3]
Wang was described as an upright man. Seo Yu-mun, a Korean diplomat who had joined the Dongzhi Festival mission to Qing China as a Seojanggwan (서장관, 書狀官, the third of the mission) in 1798,[4] reported that "Heshen has been in power for decades. From the local government to the imperial court, almost every minister fawned over him. Wang Jie, Liu Yong, Dong Gao, Zhu Gui (朱珪), Ji Yun, Tiebao (鐵保), Yubao (玉保) and others are exceptions."[5]