Yu Xian ( Chinese 毓賢 , 1842, China - February 22, 1901, Lanzhou , China ) is a Chinese politician of the late Qing dynasty , governor of Shandong province, governor of Shanxi province, known for the brutal persecution of Chinese Christians during the Ihetuan uprising .
| Yu Xian | |
|---|---|
| Chinese 毓賢 | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | China |
| Date of death | |
| Place of death | Lanzhou , China |
| A country | |
| Occupation | |
Content
Biography
Yu Xian was a Manchu belonging to the Eight Banner Army . After Keju, he received the lowest position of Jiangsheng. Using the connections of his father, who was an official in Guangdong Province , and the funds received after the sale of his family estate, in 1879 he acquired the position of prefect for money.
Since 1897, he served as governor of Shandong Province . In November 1899, after pressure from the colonial powers, he was moved to Shanxi province, where he served as governor. Yu Xian skillfully influenced the xenophobic mood of the ruling elite and tried to change their policy towards boxers.
During the Ihetuan Uprising, Yu Xian supported boxers. In July 1900, Yu Xian ordered the arrest and execution of Christians in Taiyuan , among whom were two Catholic bishops , seven nuns from the monastic congregation of the Franciscan Missionary Mary , 12 Catholic priests , 34 Protestant preachers with families (among them 11 children). Yu Xian personally killed during the execution of the bishop of the Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Shanxi, Gregory Grassi .
Yu Xian did not try to restrain the boxers and strongly supported them. In total, during the reign of Yu Xian in Shanxi, 191 Western missionaries were killed, more than 10,000 Chinese Christians, 225 churches were burned and destroyed [2] .
On September 28, 1900, after the intervention of European states, Yu Xian was dismissed from the post of governor of Shanxi. On February 13, 1901, he was convicted of supporting natural killings and sent to exile in Xinjiang . Yu Xian was killed on the road to exile on February 22, 1901, near the city of Lanzhou .
Notes
- ↑ China Biographical Database
- ↑ 冰点 特稿 第 574 期, 现代化 与 历史 教科书 Archived December 3, 2011.
See also
- Chinese new martyrs ;
- 120 Chinese martyrs .
Source
- Paul Henry Clements: The Boxer rebellion: a political and diplomatic review. New York: AMS Press, 1979, s. 200. ISBN 9780404511609
- Joseph Esherick: The origins of the Boxer Uprising. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987, s. 191. ISBN 0-520-06459-3