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Lu Chuanlin
Zhili-born governor and Sichuan governor-general who led troops to the court in 1900 and then sat on the Grand Council for a decade until his death
A walled hilltop city with a tall brick gate tower stands above a pine-covered cliff, its wall running along the ridge, while a long wooden bridge crosses a wide river below and plains, islets and layered mountains stretch into the distance, with no person in view.
Also known as Zi Runwan · Zi Zixuan · Shi Wenduan
Lu Chuanlin, courtesy names Runwan and Zixuan, came from Dingxing in Zhili; his father Lu Pizong died when Duyun in Guizhou, where he was prefect, fell to rebels. After passing the metropolitan examination in 1862 he began as magistrate of Xing'an in Guangxi, became prefect of Guilin and then governor of Henan and of Shaanxi. As governor-general of Sichuan from 1895 he sent troops to retake the Nyarong district of Kham, Zhandui, and asked that it be placed under Sichuan, but the Amban in Lhasa opposed him and he was removed from office. In 1900, as governor of Jiangsu, he marched north with troops to protect the court, followed it to Xi'an and entered the Grand Council, later heading the Boards of Rites and of Personnel and becoming grand secretary of the Dongge Hall. He died in office in 1910 at seventy-five by Chinese reckoning, with the posthumous name Wenduan; he was related by marriage to Zhang Zhidong.
Life and times
Dates 1836 CE–1910 CE