Harry Parkes (巴夏禮)

Overview

The translated histories identify Harry Parkes as a diplomat and envoy. This record brings together 6 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Harry Parkes	巴夏禮	Baxialü
Title	Consul Harry Parkes	領事巴夏禮
Personal name	Harry Parkes	巴夏禮	Baxialü
Personal name	Parkes	巴夏禮	Bāxiàlǐ
Personal name	Parkes	巴夏禮
Native language name	Parkes
Personal name	Parkes	巴夏禮	Parkes

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:378:s0050, qingshigao:394:s0093
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0027, qingshigao:441:s0051

Roles

Diplomat
Envoy

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:378:s0163, qingshigao:378:s0161
Source Date: Text: 十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:387:s0027, qingshigao:387:s0026
Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0093
Source Date: Text: 逾歲 · Western Year: AD 1871
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0051

Places and affiliations

Polity: Britain / 英 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:378:s0163, qingshigao:394:s0093

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 378Volume 378 Biographies 165: Huang Juezi, Jin Yinglin, Chen Qingyong, Su Tingkui, Zhu Qi · 1 passage

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敵謂既媾和何復募勇，且以懸金購領事巴夏禮為責言。 The foreigners protested that recruiting militia after peace was improper and blamed the Chinese for posting a bounty on Consul Harry Parkes.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 387Volume 387 Biographies 174: Zong Shisushun, Mu Yin, Kuang Yuan, Jiao Youying, Chen Fuen · 2 passages

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敵軍近逼通州，乃改命怡親王載垣、尚書穆廕往議，誘擒英官巴夏禮置之獄，而我軍屢敗之餘不能戰，車駕倉猝幸熱河，廷臣爭之不可。 When the enemy neared Tongzhou, Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Minister Mu Yin were sent instead; they tricked and seized the British envoy Parkes and put him in prison. But with our forces already beaten repeatedly we could not fight on; the court fled in haste to Rehe, and ministers' protests availed nothing.

議不諧，命擒諸酋，獲巴夏禮送京。 Talks broke down; they were ordered to seize the foreign leaders, and Parkes was captured and sent to Beijing.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 394Volume 394 Biographies 181: Xu Guangjin, Ye Mingchen, Huang Zonghan · 2 passages

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英領事巴夏禮索之不得，貽書名琛責問，謂捕匪當移取，不當擅執，毀旗尤非禮。 Consul Parkes could not get them back and wrote to Mingchen in protest, arguing that suspects should be handed over on request, not seized unilaterally, and that tearing down the flag was an insult.

名琛令送十三人於領事，不受，必欲並索千總，遂置之。 Mingchen ordered the thirteen men delivered to the consulate; Parkes refused them and also demanded the lieutenant; Mingchen let the matter drop.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 441Volume 441 Biographies 228: Pan Zuyin, Li Wentian, Sun Yijing, Xia Tongshan, Zhang Jiaxiang, Zhang Yinglin, Zhang Renfu, Zhang Hengjia · 1 passage

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逾歲，上停止園工封事，略言：「巴夏禮等焚毀圓明園，其人尚存。 A year later, in a memorial halting park construction, he wrote in brief: "Parkes and his fellows burned the Old Summer Palace, and they are still alive.