Overview
The translated histories identify Li Hongzhang as an administrator, diplomat, general, and official. This record brings together 83 passages from 19 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.
Names
| Type | English | Chinese | Pinyin |
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | Li Hongzhang |
| Title | Beiyang Minister Li Hongzhang | 北洋大臣李鴻章 | |
| Given | Hongzhang | 鴻章 | Hóngzhāng |
| Given | Hongzhang | 鴻章 | Hongzhang |
| Alternate | Hongzhang | 鴻章 | |
| Surname | Li | 李 | Lǐ |
| Surname | Li | 李 | Li |
| Personal | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | Lǐ Hóngzhāng |
| Personal name | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | Li Hongzhang |
| Personal | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | |
| Personal name | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | Lǐ Hóngzhāng |
| Personal | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | Li HongZhang |
| Personal name | Li Hongzhang | 李鴻章 | |
| Title | minister of the Northern Seas | 北洋大臣 | |
| Given | 鴻章 | Hóngzhāng |
Identity
- Historicity
- Historical
- Identification
- Named
- Sex
- Male
- Sex: male
- Sex: male
Roles
- Administrator
- Diplomat
- General
- Official
- Statesman
Life and dates
Attested activity
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:458:s0038
- Source Date: Text: 光緒七年 · Western Year: AD 1881Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0099, qingshigao:150:s0100
- Source Date: Text: 光緒九年 · Western Year: AD 1883Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0186
- Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
- Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
- Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
- Source Date: Text: 光緒五年前後 · Western Year: AD 1879Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:467:s0010, qingshigao:467:s0005
- Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0052
- Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:150:s0069
- Source Date: Text: 光緒六年後十餘年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1880 · End: AD 1896Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0116, qingshigao:443:s0115
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年 · Western Year: AD 1885Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0187, qingshigao:139:s0188
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年 · Western Year: AD 1885Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0123
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Western Year: AD 1887Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0191
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0011
- Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年五月 · Western Year: AD 1893Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0043
- Source Date: Text: 十年前後 · Western Year: AD 1884Explicit · qingshigao:463:s0098
- Source Date: Text: 同治七年 · Western Year: AD 1868Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0045
- Source Date: Text: 同治三年前後 · Western Year: AD 1864Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0136
- Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0065
- Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
- Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Year: AD 1862Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0112
- Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0007
- Source Date: Text: 同治十三年 · Western Year: AD 1874Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0177, qingshigao:150:s0011
- Source Date: Text: 同治十二年 · Western Year: AD 1873Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:091:s0149, qingshigao:091:s0150
- Source Date: Text: 嘗贊置輪船招商局時 · Western Year: AD 1879Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:471:s0003, qingshigao:471:s0006
- Source Date: Text: 左宗棠、李鴻章皆薦其才 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1895Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:437:s0042, qingshigao:437:s0069
- Source Date: Text: 拳亂 · Western Year: AD 1900Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0224
- Source Date: Text: 拳禍作 · Western Year: AD 1900Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:467:s0037
- Source Date: Text: 日韓釁起 · Western Year: AD 1894Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:445:s0134
- Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1880Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0154, qingshigao:441:s0153
- Source Date: Text: 法越事 · Western Year: AD 1884Explicit · qingshigao:472:s0147
- Source Date: Text: 總督迭薦 · Western Year: AD 1872Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:450:s0098
Career and standing
- Label: governor-general supervising Zhili / 督畿輔 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0007, qingshigao:471:s0006
- Label: Governor-General of Zhili / 直隸總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年 · Western Year: AD 1885Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0123
- Label: Governor-General of Zhili / 直隸總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0007
- Label: commander at Shanghai / 帥師至滬 · Action: heldExplicit · qingshigao:435:s0025
- Label: Governor-General of Zhili / 直隸總督 · Action: heldExplicit · qingshigao:091:s0150
- Label: Minister of the Northern Seas / 北洋大臣 · Action: heldExplicit · qingshigao:152:s0011
Places and affiliations
- Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0156, qingshigao:150:s0007
- Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: servedExplicit · qingshigao:435:s0025, qingshigao:471:s0007
- Polity: Qing · Relation: servedExplicit · qingshigao:458:s0038
- Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: servedExplicit · qingshigao:091:s0150
- Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: servedStrongly inferred · qingshigao:152:s0011, qingshigao:462:s0022
Works and attributed material
- Work: Military Academy / 武備學堂 · Relation: foundedExplicit · qingshigao:139:s0188
- Work: Tianjin Naval Academy / 天津水師學堂 · Relation: foundedExplicit · qingshigao:139:s0186
- Kind: telegram · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884 · Subject: reported the loss of Bac NinhExplicit · qingshigao:458:s0038
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒七年 · Western Year: AD 1881
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十三年 · Western Year: AD 1874Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0011, qingshigao:150:s0012, qingshigao:150:s0013, qingshigao:150:s0014, qingshigao:150:s0015, qingshigao:150:s0016, qingshigao:150:s0017, qingshigao:150:s0018, qingshigao:150:s0019, qingshigao:150:s0020, qingshigao:150:s0021, qingshigao:150:s0022, qingshigao:150:s0023, qingshigao:150:s0024, qingshigao:150:s0025, qingshigao:150:s0026, qingshigao:150:s0027, qingshigao:150:s0028
- Kind: assessment · Role: author · Summary: credited German infantry skill to daily woodland and field drill · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0182, qingshigao:139:s0183
- Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0053
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
- Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: old arms insufficient against foreign powers
Events and relationships
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: arrived-Shanghai-formed-Ever-Victorious-ArmyExplicit · qingshigao:435:s0025
- Kind: administrative · Role: advocate · Action: asked-Ruchang-redeem-by-merit · Other Person Id: Ding Ruchang (丁汝昌)Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0024
- Kind: official · Role: organizer · Action: built-navyExplicit · qingshigao:460:s0047
- Kind: military · Role: organizer · Action: established-military-academy-and-sent-returned-students-to-train-campsExplicit · qingshigao:139:s0188
- Kind: military · Role: organizer · Action: founded-naval-academy · Place: Tianjin / 天津Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0186
- Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: insisted-on-peaceExplicit · qingshigao:463:s0098
- Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: memorialized-on-western-envoy-audiences · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十二年 · Western Year: AD 1873Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0150
- Kind: political · Role: investigator · Action: ordered-to-investigate · Organization: China Merchants Company / 招商局 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0075
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ordered-to-select-officers-to-study-foreign-methodsExplicit · qingshigao:139:s0156
- Kind: political · Role: proposer · Action: proposed-founding · Organization: China Merchants Steam Navigation Company / 輪船招商局 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十一年 · Western Year: AD 1872Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0007
- Explicit · qingshigao:460:s0016
- Kind: administrative · Role: recommender · Action: recommended-Wei-Rugui · Other Person Id: Wei Rugui (衛汝貴)Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0037
- Kind: administrative · Role: recommender · Action: recommended-Ye-Zhichao · Other Person Id: Ye Zhichao (葉志超)Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0063
- Kind: administrative · Role: reporter · Action: relayed-nie-jigui-warning · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年五月 · Western Year: AD 1893Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0043
- Kind: administrative · Role: reporter · Action: requested-postal-countermeasures · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0011
- Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: requested-rewards · Other Person Id: Zhu Qi'ang (硃其昂) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0052
- Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: sent-Beiyang-academy-graduates-back-to-camps-to-teachExplicit · qingshigao:139:s0191
- Kind: administrative · Role: sponsor · Action: submitted-naval-regulations · Other Person Id: Ding Ruchang (丁汝昌)Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0022
- Kind: patronage · Role: patron · Action: transferred Yu Shimei to Beiyang service · Other Person Id: Yu Shimei (于式枚)Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0116
- Kind: administrative · Role: adviser · Action: warned-Wei-before-Korea-march · Other Person Id: Wei Rugui (衛汝貴)Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0039
- Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Shen Baozhen (沈葆楨)Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0141
- Relation: trusted · Person Id: Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷)Explicit · qingshigao:471:s0003
- Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Sun Yuwen (孫毓汶)Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0189
- Relation: relayed-report-of · Person Id: Nie Jigui (聶緝槼)Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0043
Assessments and attributes
- Assessment: blamed for favoring peace; accused of selling the state · Provenance: Mode: allegation · Speaker Person Id: An Weijun (安維峻)
- Assessment: far-sighted founder of China Merchants Company · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgmentExplicit · qingshigao:150:s0141
- Assessment: made show of war prep while secretly favoring peace; blamed for defeat of Zuo and Nie · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Person Id: Zhang Baixi (張百熙)Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0041
References in the histories
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