Qing · Official

Yude 裕德

Yùdé

Attested AD 1876 - AD 1905

Passages
12
Chapters
2
Histories
1

Overview

The translated histories identify Yude as an official, scholar, and statesman. This record brings together 12 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Yude 裕德 Yùdé
Courtesy name Shoutian 壽田 Shoutian
Posthumous name Wenshen 文慎 Wenshen
Clan or house name Xitala 喜塔臘氏 Xitala
Personal name Yude 裕德 Yude

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Official
  • Scholar
  • Statesman

Life and dates

Death

Attested activity

Family

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  • Child of Chonglun (崇綸)
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: son · Object Role: father
    Kinship Term: son / 子 · Parentage: biological · Subject Role: father · Object Role: son

Origins and identity

Career and standing

  • Label: chief examiner of the metropolitan examination / 會試總裁 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十年 · Western Year: AD 1904
  • Label: associate grand secretary / 協辦大學士 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十九年 · Western Year: AD 1903
  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十四年八月甲午 · Western Year: AD 1898
  • Label: left censor-in-chief of the Censorate / 都察院左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年 · Western Year: AD 1894
  • Label: Left Censor-in-Chief / 左都御史 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十年正月癸卯 · Western Year: AD 1894
  • Label: director of the Xian'an Palace studies / 咸安宮總裁 · Action: appointed · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒八年 · Western Year: AD 1882
  • Label: compiler / 編修 · Action: appointed
  • Label: educational commissioner of Shandong / 山東學政 · Action: appointed
  • Label: grand secretary of the Tiren Hall / 體仁閣大學士 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Hanlin bachelor / 庶吉士 · Action: appointed
  • Label: Minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理藩院尚書 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十五年 · Western Year: AD 1899
    Strongly inferred · qingshigao:195:s0290
  • Label: vice minister of the Board of Works / 工部侍郎 · Action: promoted · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒十六年 · Western Year: AD 1890
  • Label: inner court academician / 內閣學士 · Action: promoted
  • Label: reader / 侍讀 · Action: promoted
  • Label: Eastern Pavilion / 東閣 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒三十一年 · Western Year: AD 1905
  • Label: minister of the Court of Colonial Affairs / 理籓院尚書 · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十四年 · Western Year: AD 1898
  • Label: Board of Punishments / 刑部 · Action: transferred
  • Label: Board of War / 兵部 · Action: transferred

Places and affiliations

Learning and skills

  • Credential: metropolitan graduate (jinshi) / 進士 · Action: earned · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二年 · Western Year: AD 1876

Works and attributed material

Events and relationships

  • Kind: administrative · Role: investigator · Action: investigated · Place: Zhelimu League / 哲里木盟 · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十八年 · Western Year: AD 1902
  • Kind: legal · Role: investigator · Action: investigated · Place: Sichuan / 四川 · With Person Id: Liao Shouheng (廖壽恆)
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十六年八月丁卯 · Western Year: AD 1900
  • Kind: personnel · Role: official · Action: transferred · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 光緒二十四年八月甲午 · Western Year: AD 1898

Assessments and attributes

  • Assessment: modest and cautious; treated the worthy with courtesy; praised others' merits without cease; contemporaries spoke well of him · Provenance: Mode: historian-judgment

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 195Volume 195 Tables 35: Ministers of Boards and Courts Chronological Table 9 Lower · 8 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 440Volume 440 Biographies 227: Ying Gui, Zong Shizailing, En Cheng, Zong Shifukun, Chong Li, Yu De · 4 passages