Qing · Official

Xu Yongyi 徐用儀

Died AD 1900

Passages
13
Chapters
3
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Xu Yongyi as a diplomat, official, and statesman. This record brings together 13 passages from 3 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

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Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Xu Yongyi 徐用儀 Xu Yongyi
Courtesy Xiaoyun 筱雲 Xiaoyun
Surname Xu 徐 Xú
Surname Xu 徐 Xu
Personal Xu Yongyi 徐用儀 Xú Yòngyí
Personal name Xu Yongyi 徐用儀 Xu Yongyi
Given Yongyi 用儀 Yòngyí
Given Yongyi 用儀 Yongyi
Posthumous Zhongmin 忠愍 Zhongmin

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Diplomat
  • Official
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: Chinese Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左副都御史 · Action: acted-as · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒七年辛巳 · Western Year: AD 1881
    Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0105
  • Label: President of the Court of Judicial Review / 大理寺卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1877
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0005
  • Label: Vice Minister of the Court of the Imperial Stud / 太僕寺少卿 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三年 · Regnal Year: 3 · Western Year: AD 1877
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0005
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十五年五月乙卯 · Western Year: AD 1899
    Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0294
  • Label: Grand Council clerk / 軍機章京 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0003
  • Label: Zongli Yamen attendant / 總理各國事務衙門 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1863
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0003
  • Label: Grand Council minister / 軍機大臣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0007
  • Label: principal secretary / 主事 · Organization: Ministry of Punishments / 刑部 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0002
  • Label: Vice Minister of Personnel / 吏部侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0007
  • Label: Vice Minister of the Court of Imperial Entertainments / 鴻臚寺少卿 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0004
  • Label: Vice Minister of War / 兵部侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0007
  • Label: Vice Minister of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0006
  • Label: Zongli Yamen minister / 總理衙門大臣 · Action: appointed
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0007
  • Label: Grand Council minister / 軍機大臣 · Action: removed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0010, qingshigao:466:s0008
  • Label: Zongli Yamen minister / 總署 · Action: removed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0010, qingshigao:466:s0008
  • Label: Zongli Yamen / 總署 · Action: restored · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十四年 · Regnal Year: 24 · Western Year: AD 1898
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0011
  • Label: posthumous title Zhongmin / 忠愍 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 宣統元年 · Regnal Year: 1 · Western Year: AD 1909
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0029
  • Label: Junior Guardian of the Heir Apparent / 太子少保 · Action: granted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十年 · Regnal Year: 20 · Western Year: AD 1894
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0008
  • Status: mourning-leave · Action: entered
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0004
  • Label: rehabilitation / 湔雪 · Action: received · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二月 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0028
  • Label: public execution / 棄市 · Action: suffered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七月既望 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0026, qingshigao:466:s0024

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: Shuntian provincial examination graduate / 順天鄉試 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐九年 · Regnal Year: 9 · Western Year: AD 1859
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0003
  • Credential: deputy tribute graduate / 副貢生 · Action: held
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0002

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 禍始此矣！ · Quoted: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 二十六年 · Regnal Year: 26 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0017, qingshigao:466:s0013
  • Kind: speech · Role: speaker · Text: 天降奇禍，死固分耳！ · Quoted: true · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 七月既望 · Western Year: AD 1900
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0025, qingshigao:466:s0024

Events and relationships

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: one of the Five Loyal Ones · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0128
  • Assessment: one of the Three Loyal Ones · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
    Explicit · qingshigao:466:s0030

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 · 2 passages
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程祖誥五月癸巳休。七月辛未曾紀澤左副都御史。未任。徐用儀署。十二月癸未改署。張家驤署左副都御史。 On the guisi day of the fifth month, Cheng Zugao retired. On the xinwei day of the seventh month, Zeng Jize: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief. He did not assume the post. Xu Yongyi served in an acting capacity. On the guiwei day of the twelfth month, the acting appointment was changed. Zhang Jiaxiang served in an acting capacity as Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 436Volume 436 Biographies 223: Shen Guifen, Li Hongzao, Weng Tonghe, Sun Yuwen · 1 passage
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 466Volume 466 Biographies 253: Xu Yongyi, Xu Jingcheng, Yuan Chang, Li Shan, Lian Yuan · 10 passages
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