Xu Jingcheng

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Birthday	30th November, 1845
Birthplace	Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China
Died	28th July, 1900
Place of Death	Caishikou Execution Grounds, Beijing, Qing Empire
Occupation Text	Diplomat, Qing Vice Minister, Ministry of Personnel, Three Departments and Six Ministries, Hanlin Academy Bachelor of the six offices of scrutinity (Chinese: 翰林院庶吉士), compiler (Chinese: 翰林院編修), Academician Expositor-in-waiting (Chinese: 翰林院侍講(1868–1884), Qing Envoy to France, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria, Germany(1884–1885), Qing Envoy to Belgium, France, and Germany(1885–1890), Qing Envoy to Russia, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany(1890–1892), Grand Secretariat (Chinese: 內閣學士) and Attendant Gentleman of the Ministry of Rites (Chinese: 禮部侍郎銜)(1892–1895), Senior Vice Minister of Department of Public Works, Qing China(Chinese: 工部左侍郎)(1895-1899), Qing Envoy to Germany (1897), Vice Minister of Zongli Yamen (Office of Foreign Affairs), Qing China (Chinese: 總理各國事務衙門大臣) (1895-1899), Qing China(1895-1899), Inspecter General, Chinese Eastern Railway (Chinese: 中東鐵路公司督辦)(1895-1899), Senior Vice Minister of Ministry of Personnel, Qing China Chinese: 吏部右侍郎旋遷左侍郎 (1899-1900), Minister of Education and Superintendant of the Imperial University of Peking (now Peking University, Qing China (Chinese: 京師大學堂（今北京大學）總教習，管學大臣) (1899-1900)
Occupation	Diplomat

Xu Jingcheng (Chinese: 許景澄; pinyin: Xǔ Jǐngchéng; Wade–Giles: Hsü Ching-ch'eng; 22 October 1845 – 28 July 1900) was a Chinese diplomat and Qing politician supportive of the Hundred Days' Reform. He was envoy to Belgium, France, Italy, Russia, Austria, the Netherlands, and Germany for the Qing imperial court and led reforms in modernizing China's railways and public works. As a modernizer and diplomat, he protested the breaches of international law in 1900 as one of the five ministers executed during the Boxer Rebellion. In Article IIa of the Boxer Protocol of 1901, the Eight-Nation Alliance that had provided military forces (Austria-Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) successfully pressed for the rehabilitation of Xu Jingcheng by an Imperial Edict of the Qing government:

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