Liu Mingchuan (劉銘傳)

Overview

The translated histories identify Liu Mingchuan as an administrator, general, military officer, and official. This record brings together 12 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Liu Mingchuan	劉銘傳	Liu Mingchuan
Title	governor of Taiwan	臺灣巡撫
Personal name	Liu Mingchuan	劉銘傳	Liu Mingchuan
Personal name	Liu Mingchuan	劉銘傳	Liú Míngchuán
Personal	Liu Mingchuan	劉銘傳	Liu MingChuan
Personal name	Liu Mingchuan	劉銘傳
Personal name	Mingchuan	銘傳

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:071:s0014, qingshigao:462:s0004, qingshigao:463:s0045, qingshigao:467:s0002
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0153, qingshigao:441:s0154, qingshigao:450:s0016

Roles

Administrator
General
Military Officer
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 上年九月 · Western Year: AD 1886
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:071:s0014, qingshigao:071:s0025
Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年九月庚午 · Western Year: AD 1887
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Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1864
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Source Date: Text: 同治間贛榆之戰 · Western Year: AD 1867
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Source Date: Text: 徵捻 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1865 · End: AD 1868
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Source Date: Text: 明年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:441:s0154, qingshigao:441:s0153
Source Date: Text: 設巡撫後治台七年 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1885 · End: AD 1891
Explicit · qingshigao:463:s0045

Career and standing

Label: Governor of Taiwan / 臺灣巡撫 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0014
Label: governor of Taiwan / 巡撫 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:463:s0045

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: active-in
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:450:s0016
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0014
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:462:s0004
Organization: Huai Army / 淮軍 · Relation: member-of
Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0016

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Yang Changjun (楊昌濬) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年九月庚午 · Western Year: AD 1887 · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Speaker Person Id: Liu Mingchuan (劉銘傳)
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0014, qingshigao:071:s0015, qingshigao:071:s0016, qingshigao:071:s0017, qingshigao:071:s0018, qingshigao:071:s0019, qingshigao:071:s0020, qingshigao:071:s0021, qingshigao:071:s0022, qingshigao:071:s0023, qingshigao:071:s0024, qingshigao:071:s0025, qingshigao:071:s0026, qingshigao:071:s0027, qingshigao:071:s0028, qingshigao:071:s0029, qingshigao:071:s0030, qingshigao:071:s0031, qingshigao:071:s0032, qingshigao:071:s0033, qingshigao:071:s0034, qingshigao:071:s0035, qingshigao:071:s0036, qingshigao:071:s0037, qingshigao:071:s0038, qingshigao:071:s0039, qingshigao:071:s0040, qingshigao:071:s0041, qingshigao:071:s0042, qingshigao:071:s0043, qingshigao:071:s0044, qingshigao:071:s0045

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated-rebels · Place: Ganyu / 贛榆 · Other Person Id: Ren Zhu (任柱)
Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0016
Kind: administrative · Role: inspector · Action: inspected-terrain · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 上年九月 · Western Year: AD 1886
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0025
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed-Nian
Explicit · qingshigao:462:s0004
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: suppressed · Place: central route / 中路 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 上年九月 · Western Year: AD 1886
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0025

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:071:s0014

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 71Volume 71 Treatises 46: Geography 18, Tai Wan · 2 passages

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光緒十三年九月庚午，閩浙總督楊昌濬、臺灣巡撫劉銘傳會奏，略云：「臺灣疆域，南北相距七百餘里，東西近者二百餘里，遠或三四百里，崇山大溪，鉤連高下。 On the gengwu day of the ninth month of Guangxu 13, Yang Changjun, governor-general of Fujian and Zhejiang, and Liu Mingchuan, governor of Taiwan, submitted a joint memorial in summary as follows: "Taiwan stretches more than seven hundred li from north to south; east to west it is about two hundred li in places and three or four hundred in others, with great mountains and rivers rising and falling in succession.

臣銘傳於上年九月親赴中路督剿叛番，沿途察看地勢，並據各地方官，將境內扼塞道里、田園山溪，繪圖貼說，呈送前來。 Last ninth month your minister Liu Mingchuan personally led the campaign on the central route against rebel tribes, inspected the terrain, and had local officials map strategic points, roads, farmland, and waterways with explanatory notes, which were submitted.

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 · 2 passages

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明年，劉銘傳奉召入都，疏請籌造清江浦鐵路，下李鴻章等議。 The following year Liu Mingchuan was summoned to the capital and memorialized to plan construction of the Qingjiangpu railway; the matter was referred to Li Hongzhang and others for deliberation.

疏入，仍令鴻章覈覆，鴻章力主銘傳策。 When the memorial was received, Li Hongzhang was still ordered to verify and reply; Hongzhang strongly upheld Mingchuan's plan.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 1 passage

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善慶及淮軍劉銘傳大敗賊贛榆，任柱被戕死。 Shan Qing and Liu Mingchuan of the Huai Army won a crushing victory at Ganyu, where Ren Zhu was killed.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 462Volume 462 Biographies 249: Ding Ruchang, Wei Rugui Younger Brother: Ru Cheng, Ye Zhichao · 3 passages

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初隸長江水師，從劉銘傳徵捻，積勳至參將。 He first served in the Yangtze River navy, joined Liu Mingchuan in suppressing the Nian rebels, and rose through merit to assistant brigade commander (canjiang).

從劉銘傳徵捻，累遷至副將，晉總兵。 He followed Liu Mingchuan against the Nian rebels and rose step by step to vice commander, then regimental commander.

以淮軍末弁從劉銘傳討捻，積功至總兵。 Starting as a junior Huai Army soldier under Liu Mingchuan against the Nian, he earned promotion after promotion until he became a regimental commander.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 463Volume 463 Biographies 250: Tang Jingsong, Liu Yongfu · 2 passages

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台灣自設巡撫，首任劉銘傳，治台七年，頗有建設，詳銘傳傳。 Since Taiwan was given its own governor, the first appointee was Liu Mingchuan, who governed the island for seven years with considerable development; see his biography for details.

銘傳去，友濂繼之，丈地清賦，改則啟徵，迭平番亂，建基隆砲台。 When Mingchuan left, Youlian succeeded him, surveyed land and cleared tax registers, revised tax quotas and began collection, repeatedly pacified aboriginal revolts, and built the Keelung batteries.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 467Volume 467 Biographies 254: Li Bingheng, Wang Tingxiang, Nie Shicheng, Luo Rongguang, Shou Shan Zu Sun : Rui Chang, Feng Xiang, Chong Yu · 2 passages

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同治初，改隸淮軍，從劉銘傳分援江、浙、閩、皖，累遷至副將。 Early in the Tongzhi reign he joined the Huai Army, followed Liu Mingchuan on relief operations in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, and Anhui, and rose step by step to deputy commander.

未幾，銘軍潰，諸軍皆走，士成猶悉力以御。 Before long Liu Mingchuan's army collapsed and every column fled, yet Shicheng still fought with all his strength to hold the line.