Dates uncertain · Official and Relief Administrator

Feng Xu 馮煦

c. AD 1842 - AD 1926

Passages
8
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

Feng Xu was an official and Relief Administrator.

IdentityHistorical · Male

Other names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Courtesy name Menghua 夢華 Menghua

Life and dates

Death

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Key source chapters

  1. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 449 Volume 449 Biographies 236: Xi Liang, Zhou Fu, Lu Yuanding, Zhang Cengyang, Yang Shixiang, Feng Xu 7 passages
  2. Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473 Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei 1 passage

Career and standing

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Places and affiliations

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Learning and skills

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Conducted famine relief
    Administrative · Relief administrator · At Beijing, Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Hunan, and Zhejiang 京、直、魯、豫、湘、浙
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passage 278
  • Founded
    Administrative · Founder · Organization charitable relief society 義賑會
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passage 277
  • Insisted on trial before execution in Guang an school case
    Legal · Judicial commissioner · At Guang'an 廣安
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passages 259-260
  • Inspected and relieved flood disaster
    AD 1910 宣統二年 · Administrative · Relief commissioner · At Jiangsu and Anhui, extending to eastern Henan 江、皖，施及豫東 · Outcome relieved thirty-nine prefectures and counties; disbursed more than three million taels 凡賑三十九州縣，放款至三百馀萬
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passage 276
  • Overturned wrongful convictions in doubtful cases
    Legal · Judge
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passage 256
  • Personally inspected flood damage and scaled relief
    Disaster relief · Prefect · At Fengyang 鳳陽
    Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 449, passage 255
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Source notes

References in the histories

8 passages

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 449Volume 449 Biographies 236: Xi Liang, Zhou Fu, Lu Yuanding, Zhang Cengyang, Yang Shixiang, Feng Xu · 7 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei · 1 passage
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先後命官以勳及陳寶琛、劉廷琛等為內閣議政大臣，次則內閣閣丞萬繩栻、胡嗣瑗，大學士為瞿鴻禨、升允，顧問大臣趙爾巽、陳夔龍、張英麟、馮煦等，各部尚書梁敦彥、張鎮芳、雷震春、沈曾植、勞乃宣等，侍郎李經邁、李瑞清、陳曾壽、王乃徵、陳毅、顧瑗等，丞參辜湯生、章梫、黎湛枝、梁用弧等，都御史張曾敡，副都御史胡思敬、溫肅； Offices were appointed in succession: Zhang Xun and Chen Baochen, Liu Tingchen, and others as cabinet deliberative ministers; next, cabinet vice directors Wan Shengqi and Hu Siyuan; grand secretaries Qu Hongji and Sheng Yun; advisory ministers Zhao Erxun, Chen Kuilong, Zhang Yinglin, Feng Xu, and others; ministers of the various boards Liang Dunyan, Zhang Zhenfang, Lei Zhenchun, Shen Zengzhi, Lao Naixuan, and others; vice ministers Li Jingmai, Li Ruiqing, Chen Zengshou, Wang Naizheng, Chen Yi, Gu Yuan, and others; assistant councillors Gu Tangsheng, Zhang Qin, Li Zhanzhi, Liang Yonghu, and others; censor-in-chief Zhang Ceng'e; vice censor-in-chief Hu Sijing and Wen Su;