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Luo Bingzhang
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Luo Bingzhang (Chinese: 駱秉章), born Luo Jun (駱俊), courtesy name Yumen (籲門), art name Ruzhai (儒齋), posthumous name Wenzhong (文忠), was an official, military general, and devout Confucian scholar of the Qing dynasty of China.
Key Information
Luo raised the Green Standard Army and helped create the Xiang Army to fight effectively against the Taiping Rebellion and restore the stability of the Qing dynasty. He was known for his strategic perception, administrative skill, but also sometimes for his ruthlessness in the execution of his policies, he arrested Shi Dakai.
Early life
[edit]Luo was born in Hua County, Guangdong in 1793. In 1832, at age 39, he earned the Jinshi degree, the highest level of the imperial examinations, which led to his appointment to the Hanlin Academy, a body of outstanding Chinese literary scholars who performed literary tasks for the imperial court. Luo served in Beijing for more than 16 years.
Official Ranks
[edit]Noted calligrapher
[edit]Luo was one of noted calligraphers in Qing Dynasty. Now stored in the Museum of Foshan.
References
[edit]- Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
- Porter, Jonathan. Tseng Kuo-Fan's Private Bureaucracy. Berkeley: University of California, 1972.
- Wright, Mary Clabaugh. The Last Stand of Chinese Conservatism: The T'ung-Chih Restoration, 1862 -1874. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1957.
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