Qing · Governor-General

Lao Chongguang 勞崇光

Died AD 1867

Passages
25
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Lao Chongguang as an administrator, official, and statesman. This record brings together 25 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Lao Chongguang 勞崇光 Lao Chongguang
Given Chongguang 崇光 Chongguang
Given Chongguang 崇光
Personal name Chongguang 崇光 Chongguang
Surname Lao Lao
Personal name Lao Chongguang 勞崇光
Personal name Lao Chongguang 勞崇光 Lao Chongguang
Posthumous Wenyi 文毅 Wenyi
Courtesy Xingai 辛陔 Xingai

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Title: acting governor-general of the Two Guangs / 兩廣總督 · Action: acted-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年 · Western Year: AD 1859
  • Title: acting governor of Guangxi / 廣西巡撫 · Action: acted-as
  • Title: governor of Guangdong / 廣東巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年 · Western Year: AD 1859
  • Title: governor-general of the Two Guangs / 兩廣總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年 · Western Year: AD 1859
  • Title: provincial treasurer of Guangxi / 廣西布政使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光三十年 · Western Year: AD 1850
  • Title: prefect of Pingyang / 山西平陽知府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
  • Title: Hubei provincial treasurer / 湖北布政使 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
  • Title: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832
  • Label: governor-general / 總督 · Action: appointed
  • Title: governor of Guangxi / 廣西巡撫 · Action: appointed
  • Title: governor-general of Yunnan-Guizhou / 雲貴總督 · Action: appointed
  • Title: Guangxi judicial commissioner / 廣西按察使 · Action: appointed
  • Title: Jining circuit intendant / 冀寧道 · Action: appointed
  • Title: prefect of Taiyuan / 太原知府 · Action: appointed
  • Title: peacock feather / 花翎 · Action: bestowed
  • Title: Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: conferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
  • Title: Wenyi / 文毅 · Action: posthumous-name
  • Label: demoted three ranks for failure to detect corruption / 降三級調用 · Action: demoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: jinshi / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十二年 · Western Year: AD 1832

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: resourceful; walked among tigers without being bitten · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  • Assessment: steadfast and capable; held office in the Two Guangs and Yunnan-Guizhou without shunning hardship · Provenance: Mode: edict

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 20 passages
崇光知候補道岑毓英、降回總兵馬如龍可用,四年春,令參將馮世興與二人合師攻克曲靖,擒榮、連升等斬以徇,遂收馬龍、尋甸,迤東肅清,遣提督趙德光克平江外賊巢,复廣順,進克貴州,黔西大定。 Chongguang knew that expectant circuit intendant Cen Yuying and the surrendered Muslim major-general Ma Rulong were capable commanders; in the spring of 1865 he ordered brigade commander Feng Shixing to join them in a combined force that captured Qujing, seized Rong, Liansheng, and others and executed them as a warning, then recovered Malong and Xundian and pacified eastern Yunnan; he dispatched military commander Zhao Deguang to destroy rebel nests beyond the rivers, recovered Guangshun, advanced into Guizhou, and secured western Guizhou.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 396Volume 396 Biographies 183: Wu Wenrong, Pan Duo, Deng Erheng · 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 3 passages