Imperial Commissioner (China)
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Former officer of imperial China, ranking below the Emperor
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Imperial Commissioner (
provincial governors
by imperial edict.
Functions
Main responsibilities
Negotiations with foreign powers, for example
Yixin, Prince Gong and Li Hongzhang
.
Manage aid and unite local government in response to large-scale natural disasters.
Subsidiary responsibilities
Military recruitment and transport. Examples include Tan Lun, Hong Chengchou, Xiang Rong, Zuo Zongtang and Yuan Shikai
List of Imperial Commissioners (middle and late Ming dynasty)
Imperial Commissioners received a sword of office from the emperor.
- 1555: Tan Lun wokou suppression
- 1564: Yan Song
- 1640: Qing
List of Imperial Commissioners (late Qing)
- 1838: Lin Zexu (First Opium War)
- 1840: Qishan (Qing dynasty)
- 1842: Qiying
- 1850: Lin Zexu (Taiping Rebellion)
- 1852: Ye Mingchen
- 1852: Xiang Rong
- 1858: Qiying
- 1860: Yixin, Prince Gong
- 1871: Shen Baozhen
- 1875: Zuo Zongtang
- 1885: Zuo Zongtang
- 1895: Li Hongzhang
- 1896: Li Hongzhang
- 1911: Zhao Erxun
- 1911: Yuan Shikai
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