Huang Mian (黃冕) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Huang Mian as an administrator and official. This record brings together 9 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Huang Mian	黃冕	Huáng Miǎn
Courtesy name	Fuzhou	服週	Fuzhou
Surname	Huang	黃	Huang
Personal name	Huang Mian	黃冕	Huang Mian
Given	Mian	冕	Mian

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:379:s0196
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:384:s0087

Roles

Administrator
Official

Life and dates

Death

Place: home / 家
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Age

Age: 20 · Reckoning: years · Statement: 年二十
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Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 初行海運 · Western Year: AD 1826
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Source Date: Text: 咸豐初 · Western Year: AD 1851
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Source Date: Text: 道光十年至十九年 · Western Year: AD 1830
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Career and standing

Label: intendant of western Yunnan / 雲南迤西道 · Action: appointed
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Label: Liang-Huai salt commissioner / 兩淮鹽大使 · Action: appointed
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Label: magistrate of Jiangdu / 江都知縣 · Action: appointed
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Label: prefect of Ji'an / 吉安知府 · Action: appointed
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Status: declined-appointment · Action: refused
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Status: exile · Action: entered · Place: Yili / 伊犁
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Status: pardon · Action: received
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Status: dismissal · Action: suffered
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Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
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Place: Changsha, Hunan / 湖南長沙
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Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: staff · Action: accompanied-Yuqian · Other Person Id: Yu Qian (裕謙)
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Kind: finance · Role: organizer · Action: created-lijin-and-Eastern-Campaign-Bureau · Other Person Id: Zeng Guofan (曾國籓)
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Kind: military · Role: planner · Action: defended-Changsha · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐初 · Western Year: AD 1851
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Kind: hydraulic · Role: administrator · Action: dredged-rivers
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Kind: colonization · Role: assistant · Action: managed-irrigation · Other Person Id: Lin Zexu (林則徐) · Place: Yili / 伊犁
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Relation: known-to · Person Id: Lin Zexu (林則徐)
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Relation: aide-of · Person Id: Tao Shu (陶澍)
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Relation: known-to · Person Id: Tao Shu (陶澍)
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Relation: relied-on-by · Person Id: Luo Bingzhang (駱秉章)
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Assessments and attributes

Assessment: practical ability; also fiercely slandered · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
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References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 379Volume 379 Biographies 166: Zhao Shenzhen, Lu Kun, Ceng Sheng, Tao Shu · 1 passage

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在江南治河、治漕、治鹽，並賴王鳳生、俞德源、姚瑩、黃冕諸人之力。 In Jiangnan his work on rivers, grain transport, and salt all depended on the efforts of Wang Fengsheng, Yu Deyuan, Yao Ying, Huang Mian, and others.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 8 passages

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擢四川成綿龍茂道，累攝鹽道、布政使。 He was promoted intendant of the Cheng-Mian-Long-Mao circuit in Sichuan and repeatedly served in acting posts as salt intendant and provincial treasurer.

黃冕，字服週，湖南長沙人。 Huang Mian, whose style was Fuzhou, came from Changsha in Hunan.

疏治劉河海口，上海蒲匯塘，常州芙蓉江、孟河，冕皆躬任之。 He personally oversaw dredging at the mouth of the Liu River, Shanghai's Puhui Pond, and Changzhou's Furong and Meng rivers.

裕謙死難，冕牽連遣戍伊犁，既而林則徐亦至戍，議興屯田，冕佐治水利有功，赦還。 After Yuqian died in battle, Huang was implicated and exiled to Yili; when Lin Zexu was sent to the same frontier and colonization was proposed, Huang helped manage the irrigation works with distinction and was eventually pardoned and allowed to return.

江蘇巡撫陸建瀛復調冕治海運，革漕費，歲省銀數十萬，為忌者所中，劾罷歸。 Jiangsu Governor Lu Jianying recalled him to run the sea transport, abolished extraneous grain-shipping charges, and saved several hundred thousand taels a year; jealous rivals brought him down by impeachment and he returned home.

咸豐初，粵匪圍長沙，冕建守禦策。 Early in the Xianfeng reign, when the Taiping rebels besieged Changsha, Huang drew up the city's defense plans.

及曾國籓治兵討賊，冕創釐稅，興茶鹽之利，軍餉取給焉。 When Zeng Guofan raised an army against the rebels, Huang instituted the lijin transit tax and developed tea and salt revenues to fund the troops.

冕仕宦初為陶澍、林則徐所知，晚在籍為駱秉章所倚任。 Early in his career he won the notice of Tao Shu and Lin Zexu; in later years, while living at home, he was entrusted by Luo Bingzhang.