Yishan (奕山) | 24 Histories

Overview

The translated histories identify Yishan as a general, military officer, official, and royal family member. This record brings together 10 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	Yishan	奕山	Yishan
Title	Adviser	參贊大臣
Title	General	將軍
Title	Yarkand Resident Commissioner	葉爾羌參贊大臣
Personal	Yishan	奕山	Yìshān
Personal name	Yishan	奕山	Yishan
Personal name	Yishan	奕山	Yìshān

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0149, qingshigao:392:s0115
Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:378:s0050, qingshigao:382:s0079, qingshigao:393:s0086

Roles

General
Military Officer
Official
Royal Family Member

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 道光二十七年 · Regnal Year: 27 · Western Year: AD 1847
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0079
Source Date: Text: 二十三年 · Western Year: AD 1843
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:378:s0104, qingshigao:378:s0097
Source Date: Text: 咸豐元年 · Western Year: AD 1851
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:139:s0150
Source Date: Text: 道光二十一年 · Western Year: AD 1841
Explicit · qingshigao:375:s0149, qingshigao:393:s0086
Source Date: Text: 道光以來 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1840 · End: AD 1842
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115

Career and standing

Label: Adviser / 參贊大臣 · Action: appointed
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0079
Label: General / 將軍 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0083
Label: Yarkand resident commissioner / 葉爾羌參贊大臣 · Action: held
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0119

Places and affiliations

Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: lived-under
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:375:s0149
Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0150
Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
Explicit · qingshigao:378:s0002, qingshigao:392:s0115
Place: Ili / 伊犁 · Relation: active-at
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0150
Place: Urumqi / 烏魯木齊 · Relation: active-at
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0150

Events and relationships

Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: coastal-defense
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: increased-musket-training-and-set-examination-rules
Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0150
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: relieved-Kashgar-and-Yengisar
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0080
Kind: diplomatic · Role: negotiator · Action: Russian-trade · Other Person Id: Buyantai (布彥泰)
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0083
Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: won-three-battles-from-Barkul
Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0119

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: failure through rashness · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:392:s0115

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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咸豐元年，奕山等以伊犁及烏魯木齊二處滿洲營增練鳥槍，擬定考驗章程，並綠營一律辦理。 In Xianfeng 1 Yishan added musket drill for Ili and Urumqi Manchu garrisons, set examination rules, and extended them to the Green Standard.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 375Volume 375 Biographies 162: Bai Rong, Sun Huan, Shi Zhiyan, Na Qingan, Sheng Yin, Li Zongfang, Yao Yuanzhi, He Rulin, Ji Zhichang, Lie Chuan · 1 passage

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二十一年，海防方亟，疏陳廣東形勢，豫籌戰守，下靖逆將軍奕山等採行。 In 1841, with coastal defense urgent, he memorialized on Guangdong's strategic situation and proposed advance plans for offense and defense. The memorial was sent to General Yishan and others for implementation.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 378Volume 378 Biographies 165: Huang Juezi, Jin Yinglin, Chen Qingyong, Su Tingkui, Zhu Qi · 2 passages

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於是辱國之將軍奕山、奕經，參贊文蔚，總督牛鑑，提督餘步雲，先後就逮，步雲伏法。 The disgraced generals Yishan and Yijing, staff officer Wenwei, Governor-General Niu Jian, and Provincial Commander Yu Buyun were arrested in turn; Buyun was executed.

倘俯採輿論，孰不切齒琦善為罪魁，誰不疾首於奕山、奕經、牛鑑、文蔚，而以為投畀之不容緩？ If Your Majesty heeded public opinion, who would not denounce Qishan as the chief culprit, or demand that Yishan, Yijing, Niu Jian, and Wenwei be cast out without delay?

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 382Volume 382 Biographies 169: Hu Song E, Bu Yan Tai, Sa Ying A · 4 passages

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二十七年，安集延布魯特糾合回子圍喀什噶爾、英吉沙爾，詔布彥泰率兵赴肅州，授為定西將軍，奕山為參贊大臣，將大舉出師。 In the twenty-seventh year Kokand and Burut allies with local Muslims besieged Kashgar and Yengisar; Bu Yantai was ordered to Jiuquan as Pacification General of the West, with Yishan as adviser, for a major campaign.

會奕山率邊兵戰捷，賊退，二城解圍，軍事告竣，布彥泰回任。 Yishan's frontier force won, the enemy withdrew, both cities were saved, and Bu Yantai returned to his governorship.

尋予二等侍衛，充葉爾羌幫辦大臣，調伊犁參贊大臣，偕將軍奕山會議俄羅斯通商事宜，語詳奕山傳。 Soon he was restored as second-class bodyguard, made assistant minister at Yarkand, then Ili resident commissioner, and with General Yishan handled Russian trade—the details appear in Yishan's biography.

二十七年，安集延布魯特回眾入卡，圍喀什噶爾、英吉沙爾二城，薩迎阿檄調諸城兵往剿，葉爾羌參贊大臣奕山率諸軍由巴爾楚克進，三戰皆捷。 In the twenty-seventh year Kokand and Burut Muslims crossed the pass and besieged Kashgar and Yengisar; Sa Ying'a mobilized the garrison cities while Yishan advanced from Barkul and won three straight victories.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 392Volume 392 Biographies 179: Sai Shang A, Ne Er Jing E · 1 passage

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其後禧恩之徵瑤，奕山、奕經之防海，或以驕侈召謗，或以輕率僨事。 After that, Xi'en's campaign against the Yao and the coastal defense efforts of Yishan and Yijing brought censure through arrogance and extravagance in some cases and failure through rashness in others.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 393Volume 393 Biographies 180: Li Xingyuan, Zhou Tianjue, Lao Chongguang · 1 passage

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二十一年，命赴廣東交靖逆將軍奕山差遣，尋免罪，留粵效力。 In 1841 he was ordered to Guangdong to serve under General Yishan, commander against the British, and soon his sentence was remitted; he remained in Guangdong to serve.