Qing · Official and Legal Reformer

Wu Tingfang 伍廷芳

Attested AD 1902 - AD 1905

Passages: 2
Chapters: 2
Histories: 1

Overview

Wu Tingfang was an official and Legal Reformer.

Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 1902 光緒二十八年
Dated from the passage context · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 120
AD 1902 to AD 1905 變法修律
Strongly inferred · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 212

Key source chapters

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142 Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443 Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben 1 passage

Career and standing

commissioner for revision of laws 修訂法律
Appointed
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 443, passage 212
Minister to the United States 出使美國大臣
Held
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 120

Places and affiliations

Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 120
At United States 美國 · Relation Posted to
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 120

Events and relationships

Appointed to revise laws
Legal · Reviser
Directly stated · Draft History of Qing 142, passage 120

References in the histories

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 142Volume 142 Treatises 117: Penal Law 1 · 1 passage

二十八年，直隸總督袁世凱、兩江總督劉坤一、湖廣總督張之洞，會保刑部左侍郎沈家本、出使美國大臣伍廷芳修訂法律，兼取中西。 In the twenty-eighth year, Viceroy Yuan Shikai of Zhili, Viceroy Liu Kunyi of Liangjiang, and Viceroy Zhang Zhidong of Huguang jointly recommended Left Vice Minister of Punishments Shen Jiaben and Minister to the United States Wu Tingfang to revise the laws, combining Chinese and Western approaches.

Draft History of Qing, Chapter 443Volume 443 Biographies 230: Sun Jianai, Zhang Baixi, Tang Jingchong, Yu Shimei, Shen Jiaben · 1 passage

會變法議起，袁世凱奏設修訂法律館，命家本偕伍廷芳總其事； When reform was debated, Yuan Shikai memorialized to establish the Commission for the Revision of Laws and ordered Jiaben and Wu Tingfang to direct it jointly.