Yang Fang (楊芳) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yang Fang as a general and military officer. This record brings together 13 passages from 6 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Yang Fang	楊芳	Yang Fang
Title	Brigade Commander	總兵
Given	Fang	芳	Fāng
Given	Fang	芳	Fang
Alternate	Fang	芳
Title	Provincial Commander	提督
Surname	Yang	楊	Yáng
Surname	Yang	楊	Yang
Personal	Yang Fang	楊芳	Yáng Fāng
Personal name	Yang Fang	楊芳	Yáng Fāng
Personal name	Yang Fang	楊芳	Yang Fang

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0008, qingshigao:376:s0165
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:382:s0021, qingshigao:384:s0001
Value: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:369:s0039

Roles

General
Military Officer

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光十四年 · Regnal Year: 14 · Western Year: AD 1834
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0021
Source Date: Text: 二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:373:s0008
Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:376:s0165, qingshigao:376:s0164
Source Date: Text: 十三年 · Western Year: AD 1833
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0047
Source Date: Text: 道光元年 · Western Year: AD 1821
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0127, qingshigao:139:s0128
Source Date: Text: 道光十七年 · Western Year: AD 1837
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:369:s0039

Career and standing

Label: Brigade Commander / 總兵 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:369:s0039
Label: Provincial Commander / 提督 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0021
Label: Regional Commander / 提督 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0047
Title: Provincial Military Commander / 提督 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0008
Label: Provincial Commander / 提督 · Action: promoted · Place: Chenzhou / 辰州
Explicit · qingshigao:369:s0039
Status: dismissed · Action: entered · Authority Person Id: Husong'e (瑚松額)
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0022
Status: impeachment · Action: suffered · Authority Person Id: Eshan (鄂山)
Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0047

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0128
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0008

Works and attributed material

Kind: memorial · Role: author · Quoted: true
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0128, qingshigao:139:s0129

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: deputy · Action: arrived-first · Place: Guangdong / 廣東
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0009
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: killed-Yi-chiefs
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0021
Kind: political · Role: memorialist · Action: proposed-combined-drill-system · Place: Zhili / 直隸
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0128, qingshigao:139:s0129, qingshigao:139:s0130
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: succeeded-command-at-Zhanbian · Other Person Id: Gui Han (桂涵)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0165
Kind: military · Role: deputy · Action: urged-restraint
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0014, qingshigao:373:s0015
Relation: protege-of · Person Id: Lin Zexu (林則徐)
Explicit · qingshigao:369:s0039
Relation: successor-of · Person Id: Gui Han (桂涵)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0165

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: hesitated and delayed; dared not report true military situation · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Wu Jie (吳傑)
Explicit · qingshigao:376:s0169

Source notes

Historicity: historical
Explicit · qingshigao:373:s0008

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 139Volume 139 Treatises 114: Military 10, Training · 1 passage

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是年，楊芳上言：「兵丁於練騎射槍矛之外，加以車騎合步連環三項，融結參合，日操一隊，以五隊更番演習，六日合操為一陣。 That year Yang Fang proposed: "Beyond archery, guns, and spears, troops add chariot, combined cavalry, and foot volley drill in rotation—one company daily, five companies in turn, forming up every sixth day.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 369Volume 369 Biographies 156: Lin Zexu, Deng Tingzhen, Da Hong A · 1 passage

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湖南鎮筸兵悍，數肇釁，巡閱撫馭，密薦總兵楊芳，擢為提督，移駐辰州，慎固苗疆屯防。 The garrison at Zhenqian in Hunan was unruly and had repeatedly stirred up trouble. Lin toured the region, restored discipline, and privately recommended Brigade Commander Yang Fang for promotion to provincial commander with headquarters at Chenzhou, tightening the defenses of the Miao frontier.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 373Volume 373 Biographies 160: Zong Shiyishan, Long Wen, Zong Shiyijing, Wen Wei, Te Yi Shun, Yu Buyun · 5 passages

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二十一年，命為靖逆將軍，督師廣東，尚書隆文、提督楊芳為參贊副之。 In the twenty-first year he was named Pacification General to command the Guangdong front, with Minister Long Wen and Provincial Military Commander Yang Fang as his deputies.

時英兵已陷虎門，楊芳先至，聽美利堅人居間，乞許通商，被嚴斥，促奕山速赴軍。 By then the British had already captured Humen. Yang Fang reached Guangdong first and, taking advice from American go-betweens, asked permission to resume trade; he was sharply rebuked, and Yishan was ordered to reach the army without delay.

楊芳主持重，以募勇未集，不欲浪戰。 Yang Fang urged restraint: the hired militia were not yet gathered, and he did not want a rash battle.

奕山初亦然之，既而惑於左右言，欲僥倖一試，芳止之不可。 Yishan at first agreed, but then his entourage persuaded him to gamble on one stroke of luck; Fang could not hold him back.

偕楊芳擊賊於毗拉滿，大敗之，復和闐，追擒賊酋玉努斯，授乾清門侍衛，擢貴州提督。 with Yang Fang he smashed the rebels at Bilaman, retook Khotan, captured the rebel leader Yunus, became an attendant at the Gate of Heavenly Purity, and was made provincial military commander of Guizhou.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 376Volume 376 Biographies 163: Xin Congyi, Zhang Lin, Gu Gao, Shen Weiqiao, Zhu Wei, Cheng Enze, Wu Jie · 3 passages

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楊芳繼任，用兵之區僅瓘邊一處，夷寇不過數部落，當易獲勝。 Yang Fang succeeded him in command. The theater of war was only the Zhanbian sector, and the Yi raiders numbered no more than a few tribes—victory ought to have been easy.

楊芳自抵瓘邊，頓兵三月。 Yang Fang, from the day he reached Zhanbian, halted the army for three months.

楊芳不敢以軍情入告，但稱督兵進剿，實皆游移觀望之辭。 Yang Fang dared not report the true military situation, claiming only that he was leading troops in pursuit—in fact these were words of hesitation and watchful waiting.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 382Volume 382 Biographies 169: Hu Song E, Bu Yan Tai, Sa Ying A · 2 passages

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十四年，瓘邊、馬邊夷匪勾結焚掠，提督楊芳擊斃夷目，以肅清入奏。 In the fourteenth year Yi bandits on the Jianbian and Mabian frontiers colluded in raids; Provincial Commander Yang Fang killed Yi chiefs and reported the area cleared.

既而夷复滋擾，瑚松額以芳辦理未善，劾罷之，自請議處，降一級留任。 When the Yi soon stirred again, Hu Song'e judged Yang Fang's conduct inadequate, impeached and removed him, volunteered for disciplinary action himself, and was reduced one rank but kept in post.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 384Volume 384 Biographies 171: Lin Peihou, Li Xiangkun, Li Zongchuan, Wang Fengsheng, Huang Mian, Yu De Yuan, Yao Ying · 1 passage

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十三年，瓘邊屬倮夷降复叛，勢甚張，總督鄂山既奏劾提督楊芳，檄宗傳往察治。 In the thirteenth year the Luo Yi on the Qian frontier, having submitted, rebelled again with great force; Governor-General E Shan had already impeached Regional Commander Yang Fang and dispatched Zongchuan to investigate and settle the matter.