Zeng Guofan 曾國籓

Names

Identity

Historicity

Historical

Identification

Named

Sex

Male

• Sex: male
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:133:s0007, qingshigao:150:s0011, qingshigao:382:s0127, qingshigao:384:s0001, qingshigao:423:s0015, qingshigao:467:s0002
• Sex: male
  Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0021, qingshigao:396:s0043, qingshigao:441:s0115, qingshigao:441:s0117, qingshigao:450:s0042, qingshigao:458:s0060, qingshigao:464:s0040

Roles

• Administrator
• General
• Official
• Scholar
• Statesman

Career and standing

• Label: Governor-General of Jiangsu / 江蘇總督 · Action: held · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 同治間 · Western Interval: Start: AD 1862 · End: AD 1874
  Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0011
• Label: Governor-General of the Two Jiangs / 兩江總督 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0077, qingshigao:133:s0147
• Label: Vice Minister / 侍郎 · Action: held
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0007, qingshigao:133:s0038, qingshigao:382:s0127

Places and affiliations

• Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0007, qingshigao:464:s0040
• Label: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Strongly inferred · qingshigao:139:s0156, qingshigao:150:s0011
• Polity: Qing · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0060
• Polity: Qing / 清 · Relation: served
  Explicit · qingshigao:387:s0021
• Place: Jiangnan / 江南 · Relation: inspected
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0167
• Place: Ningbo / 寧波 · Relation: active-at
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0156
• Place: Shanghai / 上海 · Relation: active-at
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0156

Works and attributed material

• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Action: memorialized lack of naval force and Chonglun's undermining of Wu Wenrong
  Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0055, qingshigao:396:s0056, qingshigao:396:s0057
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Date Context: Source Date: Text: 咸豐二年 · Western Year: AD 1852
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0039
• Kind: final-memorial · Role: presenter · Subject: presented Tang Xunfang's final memorial on his behalf · Other Person Id: Tang Xunfang (唐訓方)
  Explicit · qingshigao:458:s0060
• Kind: memorial · Role: author · Topic: three policies for employing men
  Explicit · qingshigao:391:s0027
• Kind: memorial · Role: author
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0078, qingshigao:133:s0079, qingshigao:133:s0080, qingshigao:133:s0081, qingshigao:133:s0082, qingshigao:133:s0083, qingshigao:133:s0084, qingshigao:133:s0085, qingshigao:133:s0086, qingshigao:133:s0087, qingshigao:133:s0088, qingshigao:133:s0147, qingshigao:133:s0148, qingshigao:133:s0149, qingshigao:133:s0150, qingshigao:133:s0151, qingshigao:133:s0152, qingshigao:133:s0153, qingshigao:133:s0154, qingshigao:133:s0155, qingshigao:133:s0156, qingshigao:133:s0157, qingshigao:398:s0077
• Kind: proposal · Role: author · Summary: Green Standard nearly useless; Jiangnan force reform
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0166, qingshigao:139:s0167, qingshigao:139:s0168, qingshigao:139:s0169, qingshigao:139:s0170, qingshigao:139:s0171, qingshigao:139:s0172, qingshigao:139:s0173
• Kind: proposal · Role: author · Summary: train with new weapons along coast and Yangzi
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0178

Events and relationships

• Kind: military · Role: naval-commander · Action: coordinated naval pincer; later advanced on Huangzhou and reported Wu Wenrong's death · Other Person Id: Wu Wenrong (吳文鎔)
  Explicit · qingshigao:396:s0043, qingshigao:396:s0054, qingshigao:396:s0055
• Kind: legal · Role: dissenter · Action: opposed-confronting-clerks · Other Person Id: Hengchun (恆春)
  Explicit · qingshigao:382:s0127
• Kind: administrative · Role: director · Action: ordered-merchant-shipbuilding · Place: Shanghai yard / 滬廠
  Explicit · qingshigao:150:s0041
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: ordered-to-select-officers-to-study-foreign-methods
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0156
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: organized-militia-into-brave-battalions · Place: Hunan / 湖南
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0007, qingshigao:133:s0038, qingshigao:133:s0039
• Kind: political · Role: reformer · Action: proposed-green-standard-and-naval-reforms
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0166, qingshigao:139:s0173
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: raised-army-against-Taiping
  Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0096
• Kind: military · Role: commander · Action: staff-service-by · Other Person Id: Xu Zhenyi (許振禕)
  Explicit · qingshigao:450:s0128
• Relation: mentor-of · Person Id: Hu Linyi (胡林翼)
  Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0018
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Li Hongzhang (李鴻章)
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0156, qingshigao:150:s0043
• Relation: colleague-of · Person Id: Zuo Zongtang (左宗棠)
  Explicit · qingshigao:139:s0156
• Relation: patron-of · Person Id: Yao Junchang (姚濬昌)
  Explicit · qingshigao:384:s0187
• Relation: mentor-of · Person Id: Luo Zenan (羅澤南)
  Explicit · qingshigao:423:s0018
• Relation: recommender-of · Person Id: Song Menglan (宋夢蘭)
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0084, qingshigao:133:s0085

Assessments and attributes

• Assessment: admired by Chen Baozhen as model for recommending talent · Provenance: Mode: named-person-report · Source Person Id: Chen Baozhen (陳寶箴)
  Explicit · qingshigao:464:s0064
• Assessment: praised Yan Duanshu and Pang Zhonglu for restraint and integrity · Other Person Ids: Yan Duanshu (晏端書), Pang Zhonglu (龐鍾璐) · Provenance: Mode: named-person-judgment · Speaker Person Id: Zeng Guofan (曾國籓)
  Explicit · qingshigao:133:s0153, qingshigao:133:s0156