Zhang Bao'er (張保仔)

Overview

The translated histories identify Zhang Bao'er as a bandit and rebel. This record brings together 7 passages from 2 chapters across 1 history, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

Type	English	Chinese	Pinyin
Personal	Zhang Bao'er	張保仔	Zhang Bao'er
Given	Baozi	保仔
Personal name	Zhang Bao'er	張保仔	Zhang Bao'er
Personal name	Zhang Baozi	張保仔

Identity

Historicity: Historical
Identification: Named
Sex: Male

Sex: male
Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0138

Roles

Bandit
Rebel

Life and dates

Attested activity

Source Date: Text: 十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:352:s0126, qingshigao:352:s0138
Source Date: Text: 嘉慶十四年 · Western Year: AD 1809
Explicit event contextual date · qingshigao:362:s0162, qingshigao:362:s0167

Events and relationships

Kind: piracy · Role: leader · Action: accepted-pacification
Explicit · qingshigao:352:s0138
Kind: military · Role: killer · Action: killed Wushi Er · Other Person Id: Wushi Er (烏石二)
Explicit · qingshigao:362:s0175

References in the histories

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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 352Volume 352 Biographies 139: Jiang Cheng, Jin Guangti, Zu Zhiwang, Han Feng · 1 passage

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逾年，海盜張保仔就撫，烏石二、東海霸以次誅降，賜花翎。 Within a year the pirate Zhang Bao'er submitted to pacification; Wushi Er, Dong Haiba, and others were killed or surrendered in turn, and Feng was awarded the peacock feather.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 362Volume 362 Biographies 149: Fang Ji, Zhu Erhan, Yang Hu, Liao Yin, Chen Changqi, Zhu Ergenge, Cha Chonghua · 6 passages

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未幾，鄭一妻與張保仔率眾逾萬泊虎門，要總督親至海口面議，文武噤莫敢決，硃爾賡額獨進曰：「保仔自知罪大，眾多無糧，拂其請，將死鬥。 Soon Zheng Yi's widow and Zhang Baozi anchored at Humen with more than ten thousand men and demanded that the governor-general come to the estuary in person for negotiations. Civil and military officials were too frightened to decide. Zhu Ergenge alone stepped forward and said: "Baozi knows his crimes are grave and his men are starving. If we refuse his request, they will fight to the death.

請總督過舟，叱之曰：「保仔當泥首乞命，如仍驕肆遲疑，無死所矣！」 He asked the governor-general to board the pirate vessel and shouted: "Baozi should prostrate himself and beg for mercy. If he remains arrogant and delays, he will have nowhere to die!"

迨晡，保仔登舟，請留三千人招西路賊烏石二，不聽則擒之以自贖，許之，給米千石慰遣。 By late afternoon Baozi came aboard and asked to keep three thousand men to recruit the western pirate Wushi Er, promising to capture him if refused as proof of good faith. The request was granted, and a thousand piculs of rice were given to send them on their way.

保仔乃使餘眾登岸受撫，自起椗出洋。 Baozi then sent the rest of his men ashore to accept amnesty and himself weighed anchor and sailed out to sea.

群謂其所散皆罷弱，自留精銳，得米將不可製，笑應之曰：「此不必以口舌爭。」 Others said Baozi had sent ashore only his weakest men while keeping his best fighters, and that with the grain he would become impossible to control. Ergenge smiled and said, "There is no need to argue about this."

至期，保仔果誘烏石二至高州，誅之。 When the appointed day came, Baozi did indeed lure Wushi Er to Gaozhou and killed him.