Wan mao in

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Wan mao in (born 1798 in Anhui Province ; died June 22, 1865 ) was a Chinese mandarin .

Life

Wan mao in was born the son of a businessman. In 1831, he passed the civil service examination and then became an official in the Qing government . Twenty years later he became senior censor. Emperor Xianfeng promoted him to assistant finance minister in 1853. A year later he was transferred to the Ministry of Defense for proposing convertible banknotes in order to achieve an anti-inflation policy. This was triggered by the Wan mao ins proposals on the Reich monetary policy mentioned by Karl Marx . In 1858 he asked the emperor to resign and left Beijing . He died of illness in 1865.

There is a memorial in his honor in his home province.

literature

  • Report of the Assignat Committee, composed of members of the highest Rasthes, chaired by Prince I-ßin, Hun-ßin-wan, the Emperor's brother . Translated from the Chinese by Hieromoach V. Ewalimpii. In: Works by the Imperial Russian Embassy in Beijing on China, its people, its religion, its institutions, its social conditions, etc. From the Russian based on the original by Dr. Petersburg, published in St. Petersburg 1852–1857. Carl Abel and FA Mecklenburg. First volume. F. Heinicke, Berlin 1858, pp. 47-54. Digitized
  • Wu Han : Wan mao in and the monetary reforms of Emperor Xianfeng . In: the same: Hi historical notes . Sanlian Verlag, Shanghau 1956, pp. 65-81. ( chin. )
  • Zhou Sicheng: Wan mao in - the mandarin in the capital . In: Contributions to Marx-Engels research. New episode 2013 . Argument, Hamburg 2015, ISBN 978-3-86754-681-2 , pp. 177-188. Photograph of a portrait of Wan mao in, page 179.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Zhou Sicheng: Wan mao in - the Mandarin in the capital , p. 185.
  2. ↑ Marx-Engels Complete Edition . Section II. Volume 5. Karl Marx. The capital . Critique of Political Economy . First volume. Hamburg 1867. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1983. p. 85, note 67.
  3. ↑ Photography of the monument in: Zhou Sicheng: Wan mao in - the Mandarin in the capital , p. 186.
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wan is the family name here, mao in is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Wan, mao in
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese mandarin
DATE OF BIRTH 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH Anhui Province
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 1865