Qishan
Qing dynasty politician (1786-1864) · Politicians · Died at 78
Qishan, First Class Marquis, courtesy name Jing'an, was a Mongol nobleman and official of the late Qing dynasty.
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An Imperial bodyguard from the late 1700s.
A portrait of the Mulan Autumn Hunt.
Encampment where Qishan met British Plenipotentiary Charles Elliot for their negotiations for the Convention of Chuenpi.
First page of the Convention of Chuenpi
British forces storming Chuenpi during the Second Battle of Chuenpi
Han dynasty granary on Silk Road west of Gansu, China
Drawing of a naval battle between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing DynastyAbout this person
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.
