Qing · Vietnamese minister

Huang Zuoyan 黃佐炎

Attested AD 1873 - AD 1883

Passages: 5
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Huang Zuoyan was a Vietnamese minister.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1883 光緒九年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 458, passages 21, 24
AD 1873 to AD 1874 同治末至光緒初
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 463, passage 75

Family

Immediate relationships attested in the translated histories.

Spouse of Daughter of Nguyen Phuc Thi (阮福時之女)
imperial son-in-law 駙馬 · Marriage
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 463, passage 75

Key source chapters

Career and standing

Vietnamese Minister 越臣
AD 1883 光緒九年 · Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 458, passage 21
grand secretary supervising the army 大學士督師
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 463, passage 75

Places and affiliations

Polity Vietnam · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 458, passage 21

Works and attributed material

AD 1883 光緒九年
Treaty copy · Forwarder
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 458, passages 21, 24

Events and relationships

Relation Rival of · Person Liu Yongfu (劉永福)
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 463, passage 76

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 458Volume 458 Biographies 245: Xu Yanxu, Tang Jiong, He Jing, Zhang Zhaodong · 2 passages

越臣黃佐炎等錄寄和約，越誠無以保社稷，中國又何以固籓籬？ Minister Huang Zuoyan and others forwarded a copy of the treaty. If Vietnam could not truly preserve its throne, how was China to hold its frontier barrier firm?

复具和約二十七條及黃佐炎禀，上之樞府。 he also forwarded the twenty-seven articles of the peace treaty together with Huang Zuoyan's report to the Grand Council.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 463Volume 463 Biographies 250: Tang Jingsong, Liu Yongfu · 3 passages

有黃佐炎者，越駙馬，以大學士督師。 There was Huang Zuoyan, the Vietnamese emperor's son-in-law, who supervised the army as grand secretary.

永福數著戰功，匿不聞，永福銜之。 Yongfu won many battles, but Zuoyan concealed the reports and did not pass them on; Yongfu bore a grudge against him.

越難深，國王責令佐炎發兵，六調永福不至，然越王始終思用之。 Vietnam's troubles deepened; the king ordered Zuoyan to send troops and summoned Yongfu six times, but he did not come; yet the king always wished to use him.