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Shen Baozhen (1820–1879), formerly romanized Shen Pao-chen, was an official during the Qing dynasty . Biography. Born in Minhou in Fujian province, he obtained the highest degree in the imperial examinations in 1847 and was soon appointed to the Hanlin Academy .
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Shen Baozhen or Shen Pao-chen[n. 1] (1820 – 1879) was a Chinese official during the Qing dynasty.
Born in Minhou in Fujian province, he obtained the highest degree in the imperial examinations in 1847 and was soon appointed to the Hanlin Academy.
His great administrative abilities attracted the attention of Zeng Guofan, who enlisted him in the effort to suppress the Taiping Rebellion.
Following the suppression of the rebellion in 1864, Shen became actively involved in the Self-strengthening movement and later worked on the shipyard in Fuzhou (Foochow). He utilized the skill of French technicians and workers – notably Prosper Giquel – to construct modern warships for the Imperial Navy prior to the destruction of the arsenal and the fleet itself during the Battle of Foochow in the 1883–1885 Sino-French War.
He also took part in obtaining a peace settlement with Japan, following the Japanese Taiwan Expedition of 1874. Then he was appointed as the Viceroy of Liangjiang in 1875 and died in 1879 during the post. He is chiefly remembered for his belated opposition to the Woosung Road Company's railroad, which he purchased and dismantled in its first year of operation, limiting Shanghai's development for twenty years.[n. 2]
1.Chinese: t 沈葆禎, s 沈葆祯, p Shěn Bǎozhēn.
2.Shanghai remained unconnected to China's growing rail network until the line's reconstruction in 1898 and its subsequent extension to Nanjing in 1908.
•Hummel, Arthur William, ed. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period (1644–1912). 2 vols. Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1943.
•Pong, David. Shen Pao-Chen and China's Modernization in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Jun 27, 2024 · The incident led Qing officials to realize the need to strengthen their control over eastern Taiwan and prompted Shen Baozhen, who had handled the Qing response to the Japanese invasion, to call for the island to be made a province. Shen's policy recommendations foreshadowed the developmentalist arguments of Zuo, Cen, and Yao.
- Jonathan Chappell
- 2021
May 8, 2016 · Shen Baozhen first visited Taiwan to negotiate with the invading Japanese during the Mudan Incident. He later spent a year in Taiwan as an imperial commissioner. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
Apr 2, 2020 · As one of the founders of China's modern shipbuilding, shipping industry, and naval development, Shen Baozhen was the first Director-General of the Foochow (Fuzhou) Navy Yard in the Qing Dynasty and was hailed as the “father of shipbuilding in China”.
SHEN Baozhen [ Shên Pao-chên] 沈葆楨 ( original ming 振宗 Z. 翰宇, 幼丹 ), 1820–1879, Dec. 18, official, was a native of Houguan, Fujian. After taking his jinshi in 1847, he was made a compiler of the Hanlin Academy (1850) and in 1854 was appointed a censor.
Shen Baozhen was a Chinese politician. Background. Shen Baozhen was born in 1820 into a scholar-gentry family of modest means in Fuzhou, Fujian. Education. Shen Baozhen was brought up by his parents and teachers to abide by the noblest of Confucian principles and to apply them in the tradition of the School of Practical Statecraft (jingshi).
