Fang Quan () (b. ? – d. 1897), courtesy name Peiqing (培卿), was a late

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, scholar, author and educator.

Biography

Fang Quan was born in

Tongcheng County Tongcheng () is the governmental seat and the name of a county in Xianning City, Hubei, People's Republic of China, bordering the provinces of Jiangxi (to the east) and Hunan (to the south and west). History The Red 16th Army, stationed at th ...

, Anhui during the late-

. He was a descendant of

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, the founder of the

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of literary prose of which Fang Quan was also an adherent. He was the uncle of

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, a

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official and diplomat. Fang served the Qing Empire rising to the rank of

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in the Mandarin system. He was granted the post of Prefect over Xingyi in Zhenyuan County, Guizhou which had a high population of

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. The region was prominent in contemporary Qing affairs due to the

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which was successfully suppressed by Qing generals Ma Rulong and Cen Yuying with aid from the

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and French Empires. In the late 1800s, Fang returned to Tongcheng to oversee the establishment of the ''Huabiao Primary School'' (zh: 华表小学), serving for a time as its principal. He died in Tongcheng County in 1897.

References

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