Wen Ting shì (English: Wen Ting shì)

Japanese: 文廷式 - ぶんていしき（英語表記）Wén Tíng shì

1856‐1904
A Chinese scholar and progressive official in the late Qing Dynasty. His courtesy name was Yige. He was from Pingxiang County, Jiangxi Province. He passed the Jinshi exam in the 16th year of the Guangxu era (1890) with the second highest score. His former tutors, the sisters Jinfei and Zhenfei, were favored by Emperor Guangxu, and he was highly valued by the emperor, and was promoted to a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. In 1895, when Kang Youwei, who aimed for a constitutional monarchy, established the Qiang Society, he supported it together with Weng Tonghe and Zhang Zhidong, which caused resentment among the conservatives, and he was dismissed from his post and exiled the following year. He stayed in Japan from 1899 to 1900, and had negotiations with Naito Konan.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1856‐1904
中国，清末の学者，進歩的官僚。字は芸閣（うんかく）。江西省萍郷県の人。光緒16年(1890)の進士に2番の成績で及第。かつて家庭教師をつとめた瑾妃･珍妃姉妹が光緒帝の寵愛を得たため帝に重用され，翰林院侍読学士に昇進。95年，立憲君主制をめざす康有為が強学会を設立した際，翁同龢（おうどうわ），張之洞らとともにそれを援助したため保守派の反感を買い，翌年，職を免ぜられ追放された。1899‐1900年，日本に滞し，内藤湖南と交渉をもった。

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