People · Shanghai daotai, Qing official
Ying Baoshi
应宝时Yìng Bǎoshí · 1821–1890
Qing official who, as Shanghai daotai, opened the 1864 magistrate's office that became the Mixed Court and refused a Shanghai-Wusong railway.
Ying Baoshi (应宝时, Yìng Bǎoshí) was the Shanghai daotai in whose time the Mixed Court was created. The court heard cases involving Chinese residents of the British Settlement, with a Chinese magistrate and a foreign assessor sitting together.
The Shanghai Concessions Gazetteer says he was a Zhejiang-born official who, in 1862, helped set up a local defence bureau with gentry and foreign residents and asked Li Hongzhang (李鸿章) to bring the Anhui army to Shanghai. As acting daotai in 1864, he accepted a proposal from the British consul, Harry Parkes, and on 1 May opened the Yangjingbang Northern Magistrate’s Office. A sub-prefect sat at the British consulate, with the British vice-consul as assessor.
After his formal appointment in 1865 he refused a British company’s request to build the Shanghai-Wusong railway. He also discussed penal-labour regulations with the British and American consuls. The Yangjingbang Regulations for Official Joint Trial, which he agreed with the consuls, were published on 20 April 1869; under them the magistrate’s office became the Mixed Court. In 1867 he also enlarged Longmen Academy in the South Garden.
Timeline
- 1862Helped form the Shanghai defence bureau and invited Li Hongzhang's army to the city1
- 1864Acting daotai; opened the Yangjingbang northern magistrate's office on 1 May1
- 1865Acting, then full, Shanghai daotai; refused the Shanghai-Wusong railway1
- 1867Expanded Longmen Academy in the South Garden1
- 1869Mixed Court regulations took effect on 20 April1
Connections
Sir Harry Smith Parkes巴夏礼Set up the northern Yangjingbang magistrate's court in 1864 on Harry Parkes's proposal