Shen Guifen (沈桂芬)

Overview

The translated histories identify Shen Guifen as a diplomat, official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Shen Guifen	沈桂芬	Shen Guifen
Given	Guifen	桂芬	Guifen
Courtesy	Jingsheng	經笙	Jingsheng
Surname	Shen	沈	Shen
Personal name	Shen Guifen	沈桂芬	Shen Guifen
Posthumous	Wending	文定	Wending

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0001

Roles

Diplomat
Official
Scholar
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880 · Age: Value: 64 · Reckoning: sui
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0026

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0018
Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0026
Source Date: Text: 同治九年四月甲辰 · Western Year: AD 1870
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0119, qingshigao:193:s0124
Source Date: Text: 同治九年庚午 · Western Year: AD 1870
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:193:s0119, qingshigao:193:s0124
Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0009
Source Date: Text: 同治八年六月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1869
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0108, qingshigao:193:s0113
Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0015
Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0003
Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0006
Source Date: Text: 道光二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1847
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0002

Family

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Child of Father of Shen Guifen
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Shen Guifen
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: associate grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0018
Label: governor of Shanxi / 山西巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治三年 · Western Year: AD 1864
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0009
Label: acting governor of Shanxi / 署山西巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Western Year: AD 1863
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0009
Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治八年六月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1869
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0108, qingshigao:193:s0113
Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0015
Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1847
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0002
Label: Minister of War / 兵部尚書 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0017
Label: Han Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左都御史 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治九年庚午 · Western Year: AD 1870
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:193:s0119, qingshigao:193:s0124
Label: Han Left Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左都御史 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治九年四月甲辰 · Western Year: AD 1870
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0119, qingshigao:193:s0124
Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0017
Label: Senior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子太保 · Action: granted
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0021
Label: Grand Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子太傅 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0026
Label: posthumous title Wending / 諡文定 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Western Year: AD 1880
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0026
Status: mourning · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0006
Status: mourning · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0014
Status: dismissal-retained · Action: sentenced
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0020

Places and affiliations

Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0001
Place: Wanping, Shuntian / 順天宛平 · Relation: registered-at
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0001
Place: Wujiang, Jiangsu / 江蘇吳江 · Relation: ancestral-home
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0001

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十七年 · Western Year: AD 1847
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0002

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0010, qingshigao:436:s0013

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: appointee · Action: appointed · Other Person Id: Mao Changxi (毛昶熙) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治八年六月辛酉 · Western Year: AD 1869
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0108, qingshigao:193:s0113
Kind: policy · Role: proposer · Action: banned-poppy-cultivation · Place: Shanxi / 山西
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0011, qingshigao:436:s0012, qingshigao:436:s0013
Kind: diplomatic · Role: advisor · Action: opposed-war-over-Ryukyu
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0023
Kind: diplomatic · Role: mediator · Action: revised-Ili-treaty
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0024, qingshigao:436:s0025
Kind: political · Role: office-holder · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治九年四月甲辰 · Western Year: AD 1870
Explicit · qingshigao:193:s0119, qingshigao:193:s0124
Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Mao Changxi (毛昶熙)
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:193:s0108, qingshigao:193:s0113

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: scrupulous and frugal without self-praise · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0027
Assessment: valued for steadiness; inherited Wen Xiang's approach · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0197, qingshigao:436:s0201