Qing · Cabinet Deliberative Minister

Liu Tingchen 劉廷琛

Attested AD 1900 - AD 1917

Passages: 3
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Liu Tingchen was a Cabinet Deliberative Minister.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1917 宣統九年1917年五月十三日
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 473, passages 32, 56
AD 1900 庚子
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 33

Key source chapters

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443 Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben 2 passages
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473 Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei 1 passage

Career and standing

cabinet deliberative minister 內閣議政大臣
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 473, passage 56

Events and relationships

Blamed chief ministers over foreign demands
Speech · Speaker
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 33

Source notes

Historicity historical
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 473, passage 56

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 2 passages

器量尤廣，庚子，外人請懲禍首戮大臣，編修劉廷琛謂失國體，責宰輔不能爭，家鼐揖而引過。 His breadth of character was especially remarkable. In the gengzi year foreigners demanded that those responsible be punished and senior ministers executed. Compiler Liu Tingchen said this would disgrace the state and blamed the chief ministers for failing to object. Jianai bowed and took the blame upon himself.

家鼐獨保廷琛，謂曩以大義見責，知忠鯁必不負國，世皆稱之。 Jianai alone recommended Tingchen, saying that because he had once been rebuked for upholding a great principle, one could know that as a loyal and forthright man he would not fail the state. The world praised him for it.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 473Volume 473 Biographies 260: Zhang Xun, Kang Youwei · 1 passage

先後命官以勳及陳寶琛、劉廷琛等為內閣議政大臣，次則內閣閣丞萬繩栻、胡嗣瑗，大學士為瞿鴻禨、升允，顧問大臣趙爾巽、陳夔龍、張英麟、馮煦等，各部尚書梁敦彥、張鎮芳、雷震春、沈曾植、勞乃宣等，侍郎李經邁、李瑞清、陳曾壽、王乃徵、陳毅、顧瑗等，丞參辜湯生、章梫、黎湛枝、梁用弧等，都御史張曾敡，副都御史胡思敬、溫肅； Offices were appointed in succession: Zhang Xun and Chen Baochen, Liu Tingchen, and others as cabinet deliberative ministers; next, cabinet vice directors Wan Shengqi and Hu Siyuan; grand secretaries Qu Hongji and Sheng Yun; advisory ministers Zhao Erxun, Chen Kuilong, Zhang Yinglin, Feng Xu, and others; ministers of the various boards Liang Dunyan, Zhang Zhenfang, Lei Zhenchun, Shen Zengzhi, Lao Naixuan, and others; vice ministers Li Jingmai, Li Ruiqing, Chen Zengshou, Wang Naizheng, Chen Yi, Gu Yuan, and others; assistant councillors Gu Tangsheng, Zhang Qin, Li Zhanzhi, Liang Yonghu, and others; censor-in-chief Zhang Ceng'e; vice censor-in-chief Hu Sijing and Wen Su;