Duanfang (端方) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Duanfang as an administrator and official. This record brings together 7 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	Duanfang	端方	Duanfang
Personal name	Duanfang	端方	Duanfang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0105, qingshigao:472:s0154
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:471:s0068

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0068
Source Date: Text: 三年七月 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:471:s0103, qingshigao:471:s0102
Source Date: Text: 宣統改元 · Western Year: AD 1909
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:464:s0105, qingshigao:471:s0094, qingshigao:471:s0095
Source Date: Text: 拳禍後 · Western Year: AD 1900
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0154
Source Date: Text: 江督任內 · Western Year: AD 1904
Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0200

Career and standing

Label: superintendent of Canton–Hankou and Sichuan–Hankou railways / 督辦粵漢、川漢鐵路大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0068
Label: governor-general / 總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統改元 · Western Year: AD 1909
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0095, qingshigao:471:s0094

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0105

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: Hubei-railway-nationalization · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年七月 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0103, qingshigao:471:s0102
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統改元 · Western Year: AD 1909
Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0105

Events and relationships

Kind: policy · Role: co-author · Action: recovery-plan · Other Person Id: Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三年 · Western Year: AD 1911
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0074, qingshigao:471:s0068
Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Rui Cheng (瑞澂)
Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0095

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 464Volume 464 Biographies 251: Li Duanfen, Xu Zhijingzi, Ren Zhu, Chen Baozhen, Huang Zunxian, Ceng He, Yang Shenxiu, Yang Rui, Liu Guangdi, Tan Sitong With: Tang Caichang, Lin Xu, Kang Guangren · 1 passage

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宣統改元，總督端方為奏復原官。 At the Xuantong change of reign era, Governor-General Duanfang memorialized to restore his former rank.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 471Volume 471 Biographies 258: Sheng Xuanhuai, Rui Cheng · 4 passages

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於是有鐵路國有之詔，並起端方充督辦粵漢、川漢鐵路大臣。 Thereupon came the edict nationalizing railways, and Duanfang was appointed to supervise the Canton–Hankou and Sichuan–Hankou lines.

四川紳民羅綸等二千四百餘人，以收路國有，盛宣懷、端方會度支部奏定辦法，對待川民，純用威力，未為持平，不敢從命。 More than 2,400 Sichuan gentry and commoners led by Luo Lun, on nationalization and the recovery plan drawn up by Sheng Xuanhuai, Duanfang, and the Board of Revenue, declared that Sichuan had been treated with naked force, not fairness, and refused to comply.

總督端方密薦其才，遷巡撫。 Governor-General Duanfang privately recommended his ability, and he was promoted to governor.

居無何，督辦端方上言鄂境鐵路收歸國有，詔嘉之。 Before long, railway superintendent Duanfang memorialized that railways in Hubei should be nationalized, and the throne commended the proposal.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 2 passages

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初以端方薦，起用直隸州知州； At first, on Duanfang's recommendation, he was recalled as prefect of a Zhili subprefecture;

尋入江督李興銳幕，端方、周馥繼任，咸禮重之。 Soon he entered the secretariat of Jiang Governor Li Xingrui; Duanfang and Zhou Fu succeeded in turn, and all treated him with great respect.