Ye Mingchen 葉名琛

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:394:s0002
• Sex: male
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0122

Roles

• Administrator
• Diplomat
• Official
• Statesman

Career and standing

• Label: governor-general of Guangdong and Guangxi / 兩廣總督 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0081
• Label: assistant Grand Secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐五年 · Western Year: AD 1855
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0085
• Label: Grand Secretary of the Tiren Pavilion / 體仁閣大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐六年 · Western Year: AD 1856
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0086
• Label: governor of Guangdong / 廣東巡撫 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1848
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0073
• Office: Governor-General / 總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0122
• Title: first-class baron / 一等男爵 · Action: enfeoffed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1849
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0076
• Status: captivity · Action: entered · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857 · Place: Bengal, India / 印度孟加拉
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0122, qingshigao:394:s0126
• Label: stripped of office / 褫其職 · Action: dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0123
• Action: punished-and-dismissed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Regnal Year: 7 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0122

Places and affiliations

• Polity: Qing · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0122
• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0070
• Place: Hanyang, Hubei / 湖北漢陽
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0069
• Place: Zhenhai Tower, Bengal / 鎮海樓 · Relation: confined-at · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0126

Learning and skills

• Credential: Presented Scholar / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 道光十五年 · Western Year: AD 1835
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0070
• Belief: Lüzu scripture / Daoist practice / 呂祖經 · Relation: adherent-of
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0127
• Skill: calligraphy and painting / 書畫 · Level: practiced
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0127

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0114, qingshigao:394:s0115
• Kind: speech · Role: speaker
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0097

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: defender · Action: lost-city · Place: Guangzhou / 廣州 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0120, qingshigao:394:s0121
• Kind: diplomatic · Role: captive · Action: taken-to-India · Other Person Id: Elgin (額羅金) · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐七年 · Western Year: AD 1857
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0126
• Relation: counterpart-of · Person Id: Harry Parkes (巴夏禮)
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0093

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: no fight no peace no defense rhyme · Provenance: Mode: named-source-report · Source Work: Cantonese saying / 粵人語
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0129, qingshigao:394:s0130, qingshigao:394:s0131
• Assessment: stubborn and arrogant mismanagement · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0087, qingshigao:394:s0088, qingshigao:394:s0123, qingshigao:394:s0195

Source notes

• Statement: signed himself Su Wu upon the sea while captive · Ref Person Id: Su Wu (蘇武)
  Explicit · qingshigao:394:s0127