You Baichuan (遊百川)

Overview

The translated histories identify You Baichuan as an official and statesman. This record brings together 9 passages from 1 chapter across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	You Baichuan	遊百川	You Baichuan
Personal name	Baichuan	百川	Baichuan
Courtesy name	Huidong	彙東	Huidong
Personal name	You Baichuan	遊百川	You Baichuan

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Strongly inferred · qingshigao:423:s0189

Roles

Official
Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0218

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 九年 · Western Year: AD 1883
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0213
Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0212
Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0191
Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1873
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0208
Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0190

Career and standing

Label: Heng-Yong-Chen-Gui intendant / 湖南衡永郴桂道 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒五年 · Western Year: AD 1879
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0212
Label: censor / 御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 六年 · Western Year: AD 1867
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:423:s0191
Label: Hanlin compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0190
Status: dismissal · Action: entered
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0217

Places and affiliations

Place: Binzhou, Shandong / 山東濱州
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0189

Learning and skills

Credential: Presented Scholar (jinshi) / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治元年 · Western Year: AD 1862
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0190

Events and relationships

Kind: political · Role: remonstrant · Action: opposed-Yuanmingyuan-repairs · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 十二年 · Western Year: AD 1873
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0210

Assessments and attributes

Assessment: bold remonstrance · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment
Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0210, qingshigao:423:s0230

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 423Volume 423 Biographies 210: Zong Jichen, Yin Gengyun, Wang Zheng, Mu Jixianga, You Baichuan, Shen Huai · 9 passages

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遊百川，字彙東，山東濱州人。 You Baichuan, style name Huidong, came from Binzhou in Shandong.

七年，捻匪自山東竄直隸，百川奏請飭統兵大臣迅速剿辦，又請嚴禁各省栽種罌粟，上皆採納。 In the seventh year (1868), when Nian rebels fled from Shandong into Zhili, Baichuan urged swift suppression and a ban on opium cultivation in every province. The emperor adopted both proposals.

百川疏請賑恤，河督文彬、巡撫丁寶楨請仍挽复淮、徐故道，命廷臣集議。 Baichuan memorialized for relief. River director Wenbin and Governor Ding Baozhen asked to restore the old Huai–Xu channel, and the court ordered a ministerial debate.

百川疏言：「黃水宜南宜北，必將折衷一是。 Baichuan wrote: "The Yellow River might flow south or north, but the court must settle on one coherent policy.

百川繼疏申諫，上召入詰責，百川侃侃正言無所撓，上為動容，一時敢諫之名動朝野。 Baichuan remonstrated again. Summoned and rebuked by the emperor, he spoke frankly without yielding. The emperor was moved, and his reputation for bold remonstrance spread through the court.

九年，山東河決，被災者數十州縣，命百川往會巡撫陳士傑治工賑。 In the ninth year (1883) a Shandong river breach flooded dozens of counties. Baichuan was sent to join Governor Chen Shijie in relief and repair work.

百川輕騎週曆河南北岸、上下游，先散急賑。 Baichuan rode through Henan's north and south banks and the river's upper and lower reaches, distributing emergency relief first.

園工興，淮疏首上，當時與百川齊名。 When palace repairs began, Huai filed the first remonstrance and was famed alongside Baichuan.

穆緝香阿請慎選宦寺，遊百川等阻修圓明園，謇謇負直諫名，良不虛也。 Mu Jixianga urged careful choice of eunuchs; You Baichuan and others blocked Old Summer Palace repairs. Their reputations for blunt remonstrance were well earned.