The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Hung Jen-Kan

Born 1821; died Nov. 23, 1864. An active member of the Taiping movement in China. Cousin of Hung Hsiu-ch’üan.

From 1844 to 1850, Hung was engaged in propagandizing the ideas of the Taiping movement. To avoid persecution by the authorities, he fled to Hsiang-kang (Hong Kong) when the Taiping rebellion broke out. It was only in April 1859 that he succeeded in joining the Taiping forces, and soon thereafter he was appointed prime minister of the Taiping state. In 1859 he wrote A New Essay to Help Govern, setting forth a program of reforms designed to do away with China’s technological and economic backwardness. Hung was taken prisoner by Ch’ing troops in October 1864 and was executed.

References in periodicals archive

Li Zhenggao and Hong Rengan, nephew of Hong Xiuquan, were among these.

(11.) The contacts between Hamberg and Hong Rengan were the basis for Hamberg's Visions of Hung Siu-Tshuen and the Origin of the Kwang-si Insurrection (Hong Kong: China Mail, 1854), still an important source on the early Taiping movement.

The legacy of Rudolf Christian Friedrich Lechler

In April 1859, Hong was joined in Nanjing by his cousin, Hong Rengan, who was installed as his chief minister.

The Taiping Peasant Revolt

The case of Hong Rengan was special in several ways.

The legacy of James Legge

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