Fang Quan(zh: 方荃 – 字培卿, pinyin: Fāng Quán) (b. ? – d. 1897)was a late

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, scholar, author and educator.

Biography

Fang Quan was born in Tongcheng County, Anhui during the late-

. He was a descendant of

Fang Bao Fang Bao (; 25 May 1668 – 29 September 1749), courtesy names Fengjiu (), Linggao (), and Wangxi (), was a Chinese nobleman, courtier, orator, philosopher, poet, scholar, author and government official in the service of the Qing dynasty. He is b ...

, the founder of the Tongcheng School of literary prose of which Fang Quan was also an adherent. He was the uncle of Fang Chih, a Kuomintang official and diplomat. Fang served the Qing Empire rising to the rank of Prefect 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 Panthay Rebellion which was successfully suppressed by Qing generals Ma Rulong and

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with aid from the British 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

{{authority control 19th-century Chinese philosophers Chinese scholars Qing dynasty essayists Qing dynasty novelists Philosophers from Anhui Writers from Anhui People from Anqing