Qing · Grand Councilor

Qu Hongji 瞿鴻禨

Qú Hóngjī

Died AD 1911

Passages
18
Chapters
4
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Qu Hongji as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 18 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Qu Hongji 瞿鴻禨 Qú Hóngjī
Title Grand Councilor 軍機大臣 Junji dachen
Given Hongji 鴻禨 Hóngjī
Alternate Hongji 鴻禨
Surname Qu 瞿 Qú
Personal Qu Hongji 瞿鴻禨 Qu Hongji
Posthumous Wenshen 文慎 Wenshen
Courtesy Zijiu 子玖 Zijiu

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

  • Place: Shanghai / 上海 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 辛亥 · Western Year: AD 1911
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0232

Attested activity

Career and standing

  • Label: Associate Grand Secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 三十二年 · Western Year: AD 1906
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0225
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年九月丁丑 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0305
  • Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0214
  • Label: grand secretary / 大學士 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:473:s0056
  • Label: Minister of Foreign Affairs / 外務部尚書 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0216
  • Status: dismissed · Action: entered
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0231

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治十年 · Western Year: AD 1871
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0198

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: austere integrity; keen to act as Confucian scholar elevated to power · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0228

Source notes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 1 passage
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徐會灃四月戊戌遷。吳廷芬左都御史。九月丙午病免。鹿傳霖左都御史。九月丁丑遷。瞿鴻禨左都御史。九月戊子遷。張百熙補。 On the wuxu day of the fourth month, 徐會灃 was transferred. 吳廷芬: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the bingwu day of the ninth month, was relieved due to illness. 鹿傳霖: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the dingchou day of the ninth month, was transferred. 瞿鴻禨: Left Censor-in-Chief. On the wuzi day of the ninth month, was transferred. 張百熙 was appointed to fill the vacancy.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 15 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei · 1 passage
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先後命官以勳及陳寶琛、劉廷琛等為內閣議政大臣，次則內閣閣丞萬繩栻、胡嗣瑗，大學士為瞿鴻禨、升允，顧問大臣趙爾巽、陳夔龍、張英麟、馮煦等，各部尚書梁敦彥、張鎮芳、雷震春、沈曾植、勞乃宣等，侍郎李經邁、李瑞清、陳曾壽、王乃徵、陳毅、顧瑗等，丞參辜湯生、章梫、黎湛枝、梁用弧等，都御史張曾敡，副都御史胡思敬、溫肅； Offices were appointed in succession: Zhang Xun and Chen Baochen, Liu Tingchen, and others as cabinet deliberative ministers; next, cabinet vice directors Wan Shengqi and Hu Siyuan; grand secretaries Qu Hongji and Sheng Yun; advisory ministers Zhao Erxun, Chen Kuilong, Zhang Yinglin, Feng Xu, and others; ministers of the various boards Liang Dunyan, Zhang Zhenfang, Lei Zhenchun, Shen Zengzhi, Lao Naixuan, and others; vice ministers Li Jingmai, Li Ruiqing, Chen Zengshou, Wang Naizheng, Chen Yi, Gu Yuan, and others; assistant councillors Gu Tangsheng, Zhang Qin, Li Zhanzhi, Liang Yonghu, and others; censor-in-chief Zhang Ceng'e; vice censor-in-chief Hu Sijing and Wen Su;