Min Eyuan 閔鶚元

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:337:s0002

Roles

• Official

Family

• Sibling of Min Yuanyuan (鵷元)
  Kinship Term: younger brother / 弟 · Shared Parentage: full · Subject Relative Age: elder

Career and standing

• Office: Provincial Judge of Shandong and Anhui / 山東、安徽按察使 · Action: appointed and transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1762
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0198
• Office: Secretary, Board of Punishments / 刑部主事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆十年 · Western Year: AD 1745
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0196
• Office: Shandong Provincial Education Commissioner / 山東學政 · Action: appointed
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0197
• Office: Provincial Treasurer of Hubei, Guangxi, and Jiangning / 湖北、廣西、江寧布政使 · Action: promoted and transferred
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0199
• Office: Governor of Anhui / 安徽巡撫 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十一年 · Western Year: AD 1776
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0200
• Office: Director / 郎中 · Action: promoted
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0197
• Office: Governor of Jiangsu / 江蘇巡撫 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十五年 · Western Year: AD 1780
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0206
• Action: demoted-and-stipend-suspended · Statement: punished for concealing his brother's involvement in fraudulent relief · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十六年 · Western Year: AD 1781
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0208
• Action: dismissed-arrested-and-sentenced · Statement: dismissed for shielding Wu Yin and deception; immediate execution commuted to imprisonment pending review · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十五年 · Western Year: AD 1790
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0217, qingshigao:337:s0218, qingshigao:337:s0219, qingshigao:337:s0220, qingshigao:337:s0221, qingshigao:337:s0222
• Action: rank-and-stipend-restored · Statement: original insignia and integrity stipend restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十八年 · Western Year: AD 1783
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0209
• Action: released · Statement: released and sent home · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆五十六年 · Western Year: AD 1791
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0223

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0002
• Place: Gui'an, Zhejiang / 浙江歸安
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0195

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar (jinshi) / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆十年 · Western Year: AD 1745
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0196

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: direct-quotation · Speaker Person Id: Min Eyuan (閔鶚元) · Other Person Id: Li Shiyao (李侍堯)
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0203, qingshigao:337:s0204
• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0211, qingshigao:337:s0215

Events and relationships

• Kind: legal-deliberation · Role: advocate · Action: successfully urged clemency for Li Shiyao · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 乾隆四十四年 · Western Year: AD 1779 · Other Person Id: Li Shiyao (李侍堯)
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0201, qingshigao:337:s0202, qingshigao:337:s0203, qingshigao:337:s0204, qingshigao:337:s0205

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: courted the emperor's intent and was ultimately unfit for frontier governance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment · Source Work: Draft History of Qing
  Explicit · qingshigao:337:s0225, qingshigao:337:s0229