Rong Ahua (容阿華) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Rong Ahua as a merchant. This record brings together 2 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Rong Ahua	容阿華
Personal name	Rong Ahua	容阿華

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0173

Roles

Merchant

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1822 · End: AD 1830
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:366:s0173, qingshigao:366:s0176

Career and standing

Label: licensed foreign merchant / 洋商 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0173

Events and relationships

Kind: legal · Role: fleeing-person · Action: fled-after-extravagance
Explicit · qingshigao:366:s0176

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 366Volume 366 Biographies 153: Sun Yuting, Jiang Youxian, Li Hongbin · 2 passages

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英領事顛地知洋行獲利厚，欲以洋廝容阿華充商，諸商不允，乃賄鴻賓得之。 The English consul Dent knew how profitable the foreign trade was and wished to install the foreign clerk Rong Ahua as a licensed merchant. When the other merchants refused, he bribed Li Hongbin and secured the appointment.

容阿華尋以淫侈耗貲逃，勿獲，官帑無著，不能責諸商代償，乃以抽分法為彌補，眾商藉以漁利，夷情不服，日益多事。 Rong Ahua soon fled after dissolute extravagance exhausted his wealth and could not be captured. With official funds unrecoverable and the other merchants unable to make up the loss, a profit-sharing scheme was adopted as compensation. The merchants used it to enrich themselves, foreign merchants were dissatisfied, and troubles multiplied.