# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/qishan
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:43:44.657Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/qishan"
name: "Qishan"
slug: "qishan"
description: "Qishan, First Class Marquis, courtesy name Jing'an, was a Mongol nobleman and official of the late Qing dynasty. He was of Khalkha Mongol and Borjigit descent, his family was under the Plain Yellow Banner of the Manchu Eight Banners, and he lived during the reign of the Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Xianfeng emperors. He served as the Imperial Commissioner of the Qing Dynasty, the second highest-ranking position in the Qing government only below that of emperor, twice. He served in the First Opium War and Taiping Rebellion and famously negotiated and signed the Convention of Chuenpi with British plenipotentiary Charles Elliot, which ceded Hong Kong Island to the British. He, alongside Li Hongzhang, Keying, Elliot, and Henry Pottinger, are considered the founding fathers of modern Hong Kong, making them extremely famous in the city."
tagline: "Qing dynasty politician (1786-1864)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Qishan-official-portrait-1852.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1786-01-18"
deathDate: "1864"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.09
  momentum:             4.591775589606575
  historical:           8.837625333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%A6%E5%96%84"
    title: "琦善"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qishan_(Beamter)"
    title: "Qishan (Beamter)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qishan_(official)"
    title: "Qishan (official)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qishan"
    title: "Qishan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qishan_(dynastie_Qing)"
    title: "Qishan (dynastie Qing)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AD%E3%82%B7%E3%83%A3%E3%83%B3"
    title: "キシャン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B8%B0%EC%84%A0_(%EC%B2%AD%EB%82%98%EB%9D%BC)"
    title: "기선 (청나라)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B8%89%E0%B8%B5%E0%B8%8A%E0%B9%88%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%99"
    title: "ฉีช่าน"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://wuu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%A6%E5%96%84"
    title: "琦善"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh_classical.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%90%A6%E5%96%84"
    title: "琦善"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q700481"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump