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Tong Guowei

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Tong.
First Class Duke
Tong Guowei
Deliberative Minister
In office
1682–1689
Personal details
Born1644?[1]
Died1719
ChildrenLongkodo (son), Qingfu (son), Empress Xiaoyiren (daughter), Imperial Noble Consort Quehui (daughter)
Parent
RelativesTong Guogang (brother), Empress Xiaokangzhang (sister)
Clan nameTong (佟), later Tunggiya (佟佳)
Posthumous nameDuanchun (端純)
Military service
AllegianceQing dynasty
Branch/serviceHan Chinese Plain Blue Banner (until 1688)
Manchu Bordered Yellow Banner (since 1688)
Battles/warsDzungar–Qing Wars
Tong Guowei
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese佟國維
Simplified Chinese佟国维
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinTóng Guówéi
Manchu name
Manchu scriptᡨᡠ᠋ᠩ ᡤᡠᠸᡝ ᠸᡝᡳ
Romanizationtung guwe wei

Tong Guowei (died 1719) was a Qing dynasty official. He was a maternal uncle of Kangxi Emperor.

Life

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Tong Guowei was the second[2] (or the third[1]) son of Tulai. According to the Comprehensive history of Eight Banners (欽定八旗通志), The Tong (佟) family from Fushun was a sinicized Jurchen clan, they were incorporated into the Han Chinese Plain Blue Banner.[3] However, Pamela Kyle Crossley stated that they were actually Han Chinese and falsely claimed to be related to the Manchu Tunggiya (佟佳) clan of Jilin, using this false claim to get themselves transferred to a Manchu banner in the reign of the Kangxi Emperor.[4] The Tong family was the most powerful family during the Kangxi period, thus got the nickname "Tong Ban Chao" (佟半朝), which meant "the Tong who fill up half the Court".[4][5]

In 1674, after the Revolt of the Three Feudatories had begun, Wu Yingxiong, the eldest son of Wu Sangui, plotted a riot in Beijing. Hearing of the plan, Tong Guowei quickly arrested the ringleaders with the aid of thirty guards. He was appointed the commander of the imperial bodyguard (領侍衛內大臣)[6] and Deliberative Ministers in 1682.[2] In 1689 he was granted the hereditary rank First class Duke (一等公). He fought against Dzungars in the Battle of Ulan Butung, in which his brother Tong Guogang was killed in action. Tong Guowei was held responsible for not taking advantage of the victory to pursue the enemy during the battle, and was dismissed from his post as Deliberative Ministers.[2] He accompanied Kangxi on both of the latter's expeditions against Galdan in 1696 and in 1697.[7]

Tong Guowei died in 1719. He was given the posthumous name Duanchun (端純) and awarded posthumous appointment of Grand Tutor (太傅) by Yongzheng Emperor in 1723.[2]

Tong Guogang and Tong Guowei were said to believe in Christianity, though their political lives prohibited their formal conversions. They maintained close relationships with two Jesuit missionaries, Lodovico Buglio and Gabriel de Magalhães.[8]

Family

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "清内大臣佟国纲排行长子吗？". www.axjlzp.com.
  2. ^ a b c d Works related to 清史稿/卷287 at Wikisource (Draft History of Qing Volume 287)
  3. ^ Works related to 欽定八旗通志/卷135 at Wikisource (Comprehensive history of Eight Banners, Volume 135)
  4. ^ a b Crossley, Pamela (June 1983). "restricted access The Tong in Two Worlds: Cultural Identities in Liaodong and Nurgan during the 13th-17th centuries". Ch'ing-shih Wen-t'i. 4 (9). Johns Hopkins University Press: 21–46.
  5. ^ "一块坊额，见证康熙时期"佟半朝"的恩宠之盛" (in Chinese). 2023-05-23.
  6. ^ "佟國維".
  7. ^ Hummel, Arthur W. Sr., ed. (1943). "T'ung Kuo-wei" . Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period. United States Government Printing Office.
  8. ^ Litian Swen. "Privileges for Being Slaves: Christian Missionaries in the Early Qing Court".
  9. ^ "关于清初佟佳氏佟国纪的宗谱考".
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