Qing · Military commander and governor

Tang Jiong 唐炯

Died AD 1909

Passages
20
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Tang Jiong as an administrator, general, and official. This record brings together 20 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

PeriodQing

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Tang Jiong 唐炯 Tang Jiong
Nickname Blue-Sky Tang 唐青天 Tang Qingtian
Courtesy Esheng 鄂生 Esheng
Title Fakejing A Batulu 法克精阿巴圖魯
Alternate Jiong 炯
Personal Tang Jiong 唐炯

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Administrator
  • General
  • Official

Life and dates

Death

  • Age: 80 · State Mourning: granted according to regulation · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 逾歲（光緒三十四年後） · Western Year: AD 1909
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0118

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Tang Xunfang (唐訓方)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father

Career and standing

  • Office: Prefect of Kuizhou / 夔州知府 · Action: appointed-but-not-assumed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0074
  • Office: Governor / 巡撫 · Action: appointed-in-the-field · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0109
  • Office: Commander of the Anding Battalion / 安定營統領 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0079
  • Office: Supervisor of Yunnan Mining Affairs / 督辦雲南礦務 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1887
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0114
  • Office: Acting Prefect of Suiding / 權綏定府 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0088
  • Office: Jianchang Circuit Intendant / 建昌道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1878
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0098
  • Office: Acting Salt and Tea Circuit Intendant / 署鹽茶道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1880
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0099
  • Office: Acting Magistrate of Nanxi / 署南溪 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1856
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0064
  • Office: Acting Prefect of Mianzhou / 署綿州事 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0071
  • Office: Circuit Intendant / 道員 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1867
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0096
  • Office: Yunnan Provincial Treasurer / 雲南布政使 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1882
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0106
  • Office: County Magistrate / 知縣 · Action: purchased-appointment
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0063
  • Title: Governor's rank / 巡撫銜 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1887
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0114
  • Title: Fakejing A Batulu / 法克精阿巴圖魯 · Action: bestowed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1867
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0096
  • Title: Junior Tutor of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十四年 · Regnal Year: 34 · Western Year: AD 1908
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0117
  • Status: retirement · Action: entered because of illness · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十一年 · Regnal Year: 31 · Western Year: AD 1905
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0116
  • Status: exile-service-in-Yunnan · Action: ordered · Supervisor Person Id: Cen Yuying (岑毓英)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0113
  • Status: military-command · Action: restored-after-exoneration · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0078
  • Action: dismissed-after-impeachment · Authority Person Id: Luo Bingzhang (駱秉章) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0077
  • Action: impeached · Authority Person Id: Wu Tang (吳棠) · Outcome: returned to Sichuan
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0097
  • Action: pardoned-after-three-autumn-reviews · Authority Person Id: Guangxu Emperor (光緒帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年後 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0112
  • Action: stripped-arrested-and-sentenced · Sentence: decapitation after imprisonment · Authority Person Id: Guangxu Emperor (光緒帝) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0111
  • Label: impeached and removed / 被劾得罪去 · Action: suffered
    Explicit · qingshigao:437:s0121

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Action: founded · Institutions: two academies and more than eighty village schools · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0089
  • Credential: Provincial Graduate (juren) / 舉人 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Regnal Year: 29 · Western Year: AD 1849
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0058

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: administrator · Action: assisted in administering the Sichuan salt monopoly · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒四年 · Regnal Year: 4 · Western Year: AD 1878
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0098
  • Kind: administrative · Role: administrator · Action: assisted management of military colonies in Shaanxi · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治四年至六年之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1865 · End: AD 1867
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0090
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: captured five strongholds, executed two rebel leaders, and accepted two surrenders · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1867 · Other Person Ids: Wang Chaofan (王超凡), Liu Yishun (劉儀順), Pan Renjie (潘人傑), Tang Tianyou (唐天佑)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0095
  • Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: defeated Li Yonghe's attack on Qianwei · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1856 · Other Person Id: Li Yonghe (李永和)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0069
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: defeated Zhang Zongyu at Xinfeng · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治四年至六年之間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1865 · End: AD 1867 · Other Person Id: Zhang Zongyu (張總愚)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0091
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: eliminated the Heiwowo bandits within the requested eight days · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0073
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: forced Lan Chaozhu's submission at Diaohuang Tower · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1856 · Other Person Id: Lan Chaozhu (藍朝柱)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0068
  • Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: held Mian City for three months against Li Yonghe until relief arrived · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1858 · Other Person Id: Li Yonghe (李永和)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0074, qingshigao:458:s0075, qingshigao:458:s0076
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: helped lift the siege of Chengdu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1856
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0070
  • Kind: administrative · Role: administrator · Action: inspected copper and lead works and secured tax and debt relief · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十三年 · Regnal Year: 13 · Western Year: AD 1887
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0114
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: joined Liu Yuezhao and drove Shi Dakai from Fuzhou · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862 · Other Person Ids: Shi Dakai (石達開), Liu Yuezhao (劉岳昭)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0080
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: led one thousand Sichuan troops and commanded the Yunnan forces · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1882
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0107
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: organized local militia against rebels in Tongzi
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0062
  • Kind: administrative · Role: family-member · Action: recovered his father's remains for burial at home
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0061
  • Kind: administrative · Role: administrator · Action: reduced levies and reformed mines, transit stations, and land-tax accounts · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒八年 · Regnal Year: 8 · Western Year: AD 1882
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0108
  • Kind: administrative · Role: administrator · Action: reorganized local administration and conduct registers in Suiding · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治二年 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0088, qingshigao:458:s0089
  • Kind: administrative · Role: family-member · Action: rode thousands of li to visit his father at Jinkou
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0059
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: routed Shi Dakai's followers at Changning · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1862 · Other Person Id: Shi Dakai (石達開)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0081, qingshigao:458:s0082
  • Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: trained militia and protected Nanxi against Li Yonghe and Lan Chaozhu · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1856 · Other Person Ids: Li Yonghe (李永和), Lan Chaozhu (藍朝柱)
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0065, qingshigao:458:s0066, qingshigao:458:s0067, qingshigao:458:s0068
  • Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: was ordered to defend Kaihua but returned after mistakenly hearing of peace talks · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十年 · Regnal Year: 10 · Western Year: AD 1884
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0109, qingshigao:458:s0110
  • Relation: subordinate-of · Person Id: Chongshi (崇實) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治六年 · Regnal Year: 6 · Western Year: AD 1867
    Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0092, qingshigao:458:s0094

Assessments and attributes

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 2 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 458Volume 458 Biographies 245: Xu Yanxu, Tang Jiong, He Jing, Zhang Zhaodong · 18 passages
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