He Guiqing (何桂清) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify He Guiqing as an administrator, diplomat, and official. This record brings together 6 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	He Guiqing	何桂清	He Guiqing
Alternate	Guiqing	桂清	Guiqing
Personal name	He Guiqing	何桂清
Personal name	He Guiqing	何桂清	He Guiqing

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:394:s0165
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0018, qingshigao:441:s0017

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
Official

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 同治三年 · Western Year: AD 1864
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0018, qingshigao:441:s0017
Western Year: AD 1862 · Source Date: Text: 同治元年 earlier case context
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0096, qingshigao:391:s0098
Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0165

Career and standing

Action: arrested, tried, sentenced, and ultimately executed · Charge: failures in office on the frontier
Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0096, qingshigao:391:s0097, qingshigao:391:s0098

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 391Volume 391 Biographies 178: Wo Ren, Li Tangjie, Wu Tingdong · 3 passages

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先是兩江總督何桂清僨事逮治，部讞從重擬斬決，廷臣有右之者，言部臣有意畸重，仍從本律監候。 Earlier Liangjiang governor-general He Guiqing had been arrested for his failures in office. The ministries recommended aggravated decapitation, but some at court argued the penalty was skewed; the sentence was reduced to imprisonment awaiting execution under the standard law.

棠階疏謂桂清貽誤封疆罪大，不當輕比，非公論。 Tangjie memorialized that Guiqing's crime of ruining the frontier was too grave to be softened—that such leniency was not justice.

後桂清卒伏法。 In the end Guiqing was executed.

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

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宗漢過江蘇，總督何桂清堅留在上海開議，宗漢不可，遽去； Zonghan passed through Jiangsu; Governor He Guiqing pressed him to stay in Shanghai for negotiations, but Zonghan refused and hurried on;

桂良等疏聞，詔責宗漢捕偽造諭旨之人，罷其通商大臣，改授何桂清。 Guiliang reported to the throne; an edict ordered Zonghan to arrest those who forged imperial edicts, stripped him of the trade superintendency, and gave the post to He Guiqing.

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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坐會議何桂清罪未列銜，絓吏議。 He was censured for failing to affix his name to the deliberation on He Guiqing's case.