Hu Linyi
Hu Linyi (
Wuchang and much of Hubei from the Taiping.[2] Deeply overworked by the campaign against the Taiping, however, Hu died in 1861 before the war's conclusion.[3]
During his tenure as Governor of Hubei, Hu managed to significantly reduce the land tax by improving the method of collection, providing a model for other provinces during the Tongzhi Restoration era. His ideas were adopted by other provincial leaders, such as Shen Baozhen in Jiangxi.[4]
References
- ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office. pp. 333–334.
- ^ Rowe, W. T. China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing (Harvard University Press, 2009) pp. 196–197.
- ^ Hsu, Immanuel C.Y. The Rise of Modern China. 6th ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000),279.
- ^ Wright, Mary C. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T’ung-Chih Restoration, 1862-1874. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1962), 154.
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