Chonghou (崇厚) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Chonghou as a diplomat, envoy, military officer, and official. This record brings together 15 passages from 9 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Chonghou	崇厚	Chonghou
Personal	Chonghou	崇厚	Chónghòu
Personal name	Chonghou	崇厚	Chónghòu
Personal	Chonghou	崇厚	Chong Hou
Personal name	Chonghou	崇厚	Chonghou
Personal	Chonghou	崇厚

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0147, qingshigao:195:s0069, qingshigao:423:s0015, qingshigao:437:s0102, qingshigao:465:s0003
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0024, qingshigao:445:s0124

Roles

Diplomat
Envoy
Military Officer
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 俄人議歸伊犁 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:437:s0102, qingshigao:437:s0103
Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0076, qingshigao:195:s0080
Source Date: Text: 光緒初伊犁交涉 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0024
Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Western Year: AD 1878
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0065, qingshigao:195:s0069
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0007
Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0102
Source Date: Text: 同治元年二月 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0033, qingshigao:193:s0040
Source Date: Text: 同治四年 · Western Year: AD 1865
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0161, qingshigao:139:s0163
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:191:s0147, qingshigao:191:s0140
Source Date: Text: 崇厚與俄定約 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0124

Origins and identity

Ethnicity: Manchu / 滿
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0147
Label: Manchu / 滿
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0069

Career and standing

Label: Manchu Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年戊寅 · Western Year: AD 1878
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0069
Label: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief / 左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十一年十二月 · Western Year: AD 1861
Explicit · qingshigao:191:s0147, qingshigao:191:s0140
Label: Manchu Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左副都御史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年壬戌 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:193:s0033, qingshigao:193:s0040
Label: Manchu Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院滿左副都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年二月 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0033, qingshigao:193:s0040
Status: vacated-post · Action: exited · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒五年己卯 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0080
Label: proposed pardon / 將赦崇厚罪 · Action: proposed-pardon · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0007
Status: punishment · Action: sentenced
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0064
Label: dismissed and punished / 褫職治罪 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0104

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0163
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0069
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:191:s0147
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0003

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: arbitrarily-concluded-Russian-treaty
Explicit · qingshigao:465:s0003
Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: concluded treaty with Russia
Explicit · qingshigao:445:s0124
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led-foreign-rifle-corps-south-of-capital · Place: capital south / 畿南
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0163
Kind: political · Role: office-holder · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年二月 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0033, qingshigao:193:s0040
Kind: diplomatic · Role: envoy · Action: unauthorized-Ili-treaty
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0024, qingshigao:436:s0063

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0069

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 139Volume 139 Treatises 114: Military 10, Training · 1 passage

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是年，令崇厚率洋槍隊千五百人赴畿南，飭天津鎮、蘆台鎮選擇標兵，增練新式洋槍。 That year Chonghou led fifteen hundred foreign-rifle men south of the capital while Tianjin and Lutai picked standard troops to train on new foreign muskets.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 191Volume 191 Tables 31: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 7 Lower · 1 passage

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聯康十一月遷。崇厚十二月左副都御史。 In the eleventh month, 聯康 was transferred. In the twelfth month, 崇厚: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 193Volume 193 Tables 33: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 8 Lower · 1 passage

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崇厚二月遷。阿克敦布三月代。十二月戊子景霖左副都御史。 In the second month, 崇厚 was transferred. In the third month, 阿克敦布 served as replacement. On the wuzi day of the twelfth month, 景霖: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 2 passages

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全慶三月癸亥遷。恩承左都御史。五月辛亥遷。榮祿左都御史。癸亥遷。文煜左都御史。十二月癸卯遷。崇厚左都御史。志和署。 On the guihai day of the third month, 全慶 was transferred. 恩承: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the xinhai day of the fifth month, was transferred. 榮祿: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the guihai day, was transferred. 文煜: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the guimao day of the twelfth month, was transferred. 崇厚: Left Censor-in-Chief. 志和 served in an acting capacity.

崇厚十一月癸巳開缺。辛卯志和左都御史。 On the guisi day of the eleventh month, 崇厚 vacated the post. On the xinmao day, 志和: Left Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 1 passage

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崇厚等一再養癰，裹脅逾萬。 yet Chonghou and others had repeatedly indulged him until his coerced following swelled past ten thousand.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 223: Shen Guifen, Li Hongzao, Weng Tonghe, Sun Yuwen · 3 passages

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及與俄人議還伊犁，崇厚擅訂約，朝議紛然； When negotiations with Russia over the return of Ili began, Chonghou had signed a treaty on his own authority, throwing the court into uproar;

時崇厚與俄擅定伊犁約，鴻藻堅持不可，爭於廷。 When Chonghou signed the Ili treaty with Russia on his own authority, Hongzao firmly opposed it and argued the matter at court.

卒治崇厚罪，議改約。 Chonghou was eventually punished and a revised treaty negotiated.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 3 passages

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俄人議歸伊犁，與使俄大臣崇厚訂新約十八條。 When Russia proposed returning Yili, Minister to Russia Chonghou negotiated a new treaty of eighteen articles.

之洞論奏其失，請斬崇厚，毀俄約。 Zhidong memorialized on its defects, demanding Chonghou's execution and the abrogation of the Russian treaty.

疏上，乃褫崇厚職治罪，以侍郎曾紀澤為使俄大臣，議改約。 Once the memorial reached the throne, Chonghou was dismissed and punished, and Vice Minister Zeng Jize was sent to Russia to renegotiate the treaty.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 445Volume 445 Biographies 232: Wu Kedu, Zhu Yixin, Tu Keshou, An Weijun, Wen Ti, Jiang Chunlin · 1 passage

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未出都，會崇厚與俄定約，敕下廷臣議。 Before leaving the capital, Chonghou concluded a treaty with Russia and an order was issued for court ministers to discuss it.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 465Volume 465 Biographies 252: Xu Tong With: Yu Shi, Yu Shi Son: Cheng Yu, Gang Yi, Zhao Shuqiao, Qi Xiu, Ying Nian, Yu Lu With: Ting Yong, Yu Xian With: Li Tingxiao · 2 passages

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時擅訂約，下群臣議，乃條摘其不可行者：曰、各城定界； When Chonghou took it upon himself to negotiate the Russian treaty, the matter was laid before the full court. Xu Tong listed the terms that could not be accepted: delimiting the cities of Ili and Tarbagatai;

六年，廷議徇俄人請，將赦崇厚罪，桐力持不可，謂：「揆度機要在樞廷，折衝俎豆在總署，講信修睦在使臣。 In 1880, when the court debated yielding to Russian pressure and pardoning Chonghou, Xu Tong stood firm against it, arguing: "Strategic judgment rests with the Grand Council; negotiation at the council table rests with the Zongli Yamen; building trust and good relations rests with the envoys.