Sun Yuwen (孫毓汶) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Sun Yuwen as a diplomat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 14 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Sun Yuwen	孫毓汶	Sun Yuwen
Courtesy	Laishan	萊山	Laishan
Surname	Sun	孫	Sun
Personal name	Sun Yuwen	孫毓汶	Sun Yuwen
Posthumous	Wenkai	文恪	Wenkai
Given	Yuwen	毓汶	Yuwen

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0168, qingshigao:466:s0009

Roles

Diplomat
Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1899
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0191

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:466:s0009, qingshigao:466:s0008
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1899
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0191
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0186
Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年前後 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1894 · End: AD 1895
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:443:s0045
Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Western Year: AD 1884
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0182
Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0169
Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0171

Family

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Child of Ruizhen (瑞珍)
Kinship Term: father / 父 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son
Child of Mother of Sun Yuwen
Kinship Term: mother / 母 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: mother · Object Role: son

Career and standing

Label: Grand Councilor / 軍機 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Western Year: AD 1884
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0182
Label: Grand Councillor / 樞臣 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0009, qingshigao:466:s0008
Label: posthumous title Wenkai / 文恪 · Action: posthumously-granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1899
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0191
Status: mourning · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒元年 · Western Year: AD 1875
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0176
Status: mourning · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Western Year: AD 1858
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0170
Status: retirement · Action: retired for illness
Explicit · qingshigao:443:s0045
Status: banishment · Action: sentenced · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐十年 · Western Year: AD 1860
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0171
Label: impeachment / 被劾 · Action: suffered
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0009

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0009
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0168
Place: Jining, Shandong / 山東濟寧州 · Relation: native-of
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0168

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar, second of the first class / 一甲二名進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0169

Events and relationships

Kind: diplomatic · Role: advocate · Action: urged-signing-Sino-Japanese-peace-treaty · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0186, qingshigao:436:s0189
Relation: ally-of · Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0189

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: resourceful; especially powerful as channel to Prince Chun · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0192, qingshigao:436:s0195
Assessment: smoothed factional gaps; court relied on him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:436:s0202