A Chinese Biographical Dictionary/Ch'ên Kuo-jui

by Herbert A. Giles

230 Ch'ên Kuo-jui 陳國瑞. 19th cent. A.D. A native of 應城 Ying-ch'êng in Hupeh, who entered upon a military career, and after distinguishing himself under Sêng-ko-lin-sin by his exploits against the rebels in Anhui during the reign of the Emperor Hsien Fêng, was promoted to the rank of Brigade General. He was leading troops through Tientsin in June 1870 and is popularly supposed to have instigated the massacre of Europeans which took place on the 21st of that month. He rose to be Provincial Commander-in-chief at 處 Ch'u-chou in Chehkiang, and after his death temples were erected in his honour, and his life was recorded by the Imperial Historiographer.