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Ye Mingchen
Ye Mingchen (18071859), also romanized as Yeh Ming-ch'en, was a high-ranking Chinese official during the Qing dynasty, known for his resistance to British influence in Canton (now known as Guangzhou) in the aftermath of the First Opium War and his role in the beginning of the Second Opium War.
==Early career==
Ye came from a scholarly family in Hubei province, son of Yeh Chih-shên a and connoisseur of antiquities. He was awarded the ''juren'' degree in 1837, the ''jinshi'', or highest degree, in 1835, after which he briefly held the position as a compiler in the imperial elite school, the Hanlin Academy. In 1838, Ye received his first official appointment as prefect of Xing'an in Shaanxi province and he subsequently rose rapidly through the ranks in the Qing civil service. In the following years he served as circuit intendant of Yanping in Shanxi provinces, salt inspector in Jiangxi, surveillance commissioner in Yunnan and financial commissioner first in Hunan, later in Gansu and finally Guangdong province, of which he became governor in 1848, just as the Taiping Rebellion was breaking out.〔
Around 1850, Ye Mingchen and his father established an association in the western suburbs of Canton to worship Lü Dongbin, one of the Daoist Eight Immortals known for helping the common people, and to provide medical prescriptions. Ye is said to have commanded troops in battle on the basis of communications with Lü.〔Shiga Ichiko, "Manifestations of Lüzu in Modern Guangdong," in Livia Kohn, Harold David Roth, ed., ''Daoist Identity: Cosmology, Lineage, and Ritual'' (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2002 ), (p. 200 ).〕 Some unsympathetic observers account for his inadequate preparations, misplaced confidence, and the ease with which the British captured him by pointing to his belief in occult Taoism and oracular divination.〔Tu, "Yeh Ming-ch'en," ''Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Dynasty''〕
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