Baoxing (寶興) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Baoxing as an official. This record brings together 5 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Baoxing	寶興	Baoxing
Surname	Bao	寶	Bao
Personal	Bao Xing	寶興	Bǎo Xīng
Personal name	Bao Xing	寶興	Bao Xing
Personal name	Baoxing	寶興	Baoxing
Given	Xing	興	Xing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0021, qingshigao:379:s0176
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0001

Roles

Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 至則復為總督寶興所忌 · Western Year: AD 1842
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:384:s0163, qingshigao:384:s0151
Source Date: Text: 道光九年 · Western Year: AD 1829
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:375:s0021, qingshigao:375:s0019
Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:379:s0176, qingshigao:379:s0173
Source Date: Text: 道光十年 · Western Year: AD 1830
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0109

Career and standing

Label: Governor-General / 總督 · Action: held · Place: Sichuan / 四川
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0163
Label: vice minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0176
Label: Vice Minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0081, qingshigao:384:s0109

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0021

Events and relationships

Relation: rival-of · Person Id: Yao Ying (姚瑩)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0163

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 1 passage

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尋偕侍郎寶興勘視南河垛料，舉實以聞。 He then joined Vice Minister Baoxing to inspect grain stockpiles along the Southern Grand Canal and reported what they found.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 1 passage

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議者多主改法課歸場灶，命尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興赴江南查議。 Many deliberators favored changing the law to assign tax collection directly to the salt fields and furnaces; the emperor ordered the minister Wang Ding and the vice minister Bao Xing to go to Jiangnan to investigate.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 3 passages

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陶澍繼督兩江，與尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興會籌鹽法，合疏留鳳生襄議，於是大有興革，略與鳳生初議相出入； Tao Shu succeeded as governor-general of the Two Jiangs and, with Minister Wang Ding and Vice Minister Bao Xing, worked out salt reforms; they jointly memorialized to keep Fengsheng to help draft the plan, and the resulting overhaul largely followed, though not entirely, his original proposals;

十年，宣宗以兩淮鹽法大壞，授陶澍為兩江總督，命尚書王鼎、侍郎寶興赴江南會議改革。 In the tenth year, seeing how badly the Liang-Huai salt system had decayed, the Xuanzong Emperor appointed Tao Shu governor-general of the Two Jiangs and sent Minister Wang Ding and Vice Minister Bao Xing to Jiangnan to plan reforms.

宣宗心知台灣功，入獄六日，特旨以同知直隸州知州發往四川效用，至則復為總督寶興所忌。 The Xuanzong Emperor knew the true worth of the Taiwan victories; after six days in prison a special edict sent him to Sichuan as a subprefect and department magistrate to redeem himself, but there Governor Bao Xing turned against him again.