Xue Fucheng (薛福成)

Overview

The translated histories identify Xue Fucheng as an administrator, diplomat, envoy, and official. This record brings together 7 passages from 4 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Xue Fucheng	薛福成	Xue Fucheng
Given	Fucheng	福成	Fúchéng
Title	intendant of the Ning-Shao-Tai circuit	浙江寧紹台道
Surname	Xue	薛	Xuē
Personal name	Xue Fucheng	薛福成	Xue Fucheng
Personal	Xue Fucheng	薛福成	Xuē Fúchéng

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:091:s0171, qingshigao:152:s0020, qingshigao:195:s0191
Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0158

Roles

Administrator
Diplomat
Envoy
Official

Life and dates

Death

Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年辛卯 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0245

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年辛卯 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0236, qingshigao:195:s0245
Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年間 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0225, qingshigao:195:s0234
Source Date: Text: 光緒十五年 · Western Year: AD 1889
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0183, qingshigao:195:s0191
Source Date: Text: 光緒十八年 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0215, qingshigao:195:s0223
Source Date: Text: 光緒十六年 · Western Year: AD 1890
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171
Source Date: Text: 赫德在華任內 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1863 · End: AD 1908
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:435:s0158, qingshigao:435:s0156

Origins and identity

Label: Han Chinese / 漢
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0191

Career and standing

Label: envoy stationed in England / 駐英使臣
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171
Label: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief / 左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0234
Label: Chinese Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十五年己丑 · Western Year: AD 1889
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0191
Label: Chinese Left Vice Censor-in-Chief of the Censorate / 都察院漢左副都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十八年壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0223
Label: Circuit Intendant / 道員 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0158
Label: Intendant of the Ning-Shao-Tai circuit / 浙江寧紹台道 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Status: relieved-illness · Action: exited · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十五年己丑 · Western Year: AD 1889
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0191
Status: did-not-assume-office · Action: noted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十九年 · Western Year: AD 1893
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0234

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0191, qingshigao:435:s0158
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0234, qingshigao:195:s0245
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:152:s0020
Place: England / 英 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171
Place: Zhejiang Ning-Shao-Tai circuit / 浙江寧紹台 · Relation: posted-to
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Other Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0158
Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true · Provenance: Mode: quotation · Speaker Person Id: Xue Fucheng (薛福成)
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171, qingshigao:091:s0172, qingshigao:091:s0173, qingshigao:091:s0174, qingshigao:091:s0175, qingshigao:091:s0176, qingshigao:091:s0177, qingshigao:091:s0178

Events and relationships

Kind: personnel · Role: appointee · Action: did-not-assume-office · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十八年壬辰 · Western Year: AD 1892
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:195:s0223
Kind: death · Role: deceased · Action: died · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年辛卯 · Western Year: AD 1894
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0245
Kind: political · Role: advisor · Action: memorialized-on-envoy-audience-precedent · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十六年 · Western Year: AD 1890
Explicit · qingshigao:091:s0171
Kind: administrative · Role: proposer · Action: urged-china-postal-bureaus · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十一年間 · Western Year: AD 1885
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020
Relation: acted-on-proposal-of · Person Id: Li Kui (李奎)
Explicit · qingshigao:152:s0020

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: Hart secretive, self-interested, pro-Western · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Source Person Id: Xue Fucheng (薛福成) · About Person Id: Robert Hart (赫德)
Explicit · qingshigao:435:s0158

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:195:s0191

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 91Volume 91 Treatises 66: Rites 10, Bin Li · 1 passage

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光緒十六年，駐英使臣薛福成奏陳：「各使覲見，須定明例。 In the sixteenth year of Guangxu, the envoy stationed in England, Xue Fucheng, submitted a memorial stating: "Audiences for the various envoys must be established by clear precedent.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 152Volume 152 Treatises 127: Transportation 4, You Zheng · 1 passage

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光緒十一年間，前浙江寧紹台道薛福成據委員李奎條陳，請中國自行設局，以挽利權，並經稅務司葛顯禮前往香港、日本，向彼國商議，收回上海所設英、日兩國郵局，已有端倪。 In the eleventh year of Guangxu, Xue Fucheng, formerly intendant of the Ning-Shao-Tai circuit, acting on a proposal by Li Kui, urged China to open its own offices to recover commercial rights; Commissioner Gell had also gone to Hong Kong and Japan to negotiate withdrawal of the British and Japanese post offices in Shanghai, and progress was already visible.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 4 passages

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吳大澂遷。二月丁亥薛福成左副都御史。五月己酉病解。六月戊寅徐致祥左副都御史。吳大澂 was transferred. On the dinghai day of the second month, 薛福成: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief. On the jiyou day of the fifth month, was relieved due to illness. On the wuyin day of the sixth month, 徐致祥: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

徐致祥遷。八月丙子薛福成左副都御史。未任。壽昌署。徐致祥 was transferred. On the bingzi day of the eighth month, 薛福成: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief. 未任. 壽昌 served in an acting capacity.

薛福成壽昌仍署。 Xue Fucheng; Shouchang continued to serve in an acting capacity.

薛福成辛卯卒。八月甲子壽昌左副都御史。 On the xinmao day, 薛福成 died. On the jiazi day of the eighth month, 壽昌: Left Deputy Censor-in-Chief.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 435Volume 435 Biographies 222: Hua Er, Lei Bo Lei Dong, Fa Er Di Fu, Ge Deng, Ri Yi Ge, De Ke Bei, He De, Bo Li · 1 passage

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總署嘗擬請授總海防司，道員薛福成以其陰鷙專利，常內西人而外中國，上書鴻章力爭之，議始寢。 The Zongli Yamen once proposed making him director general of coastal defense; Circuit Intendant Xue Fucheng, who regarded him as secretive, self-interested, and partial to the West against China, protested vigorously to Li Hongzhang and the plan was abandoned.