Zēng Guófān 曾國藩 (1811–1872), zì Bóhán 伯涵 (also Díshēng 滌生), posthumous title Wénzhèng 文正 (the highest civil posthumous title, given to only a few Qīng officials). Native of Xiāngxiāng 湘鄉, Húnán. The single most influential individual figure of the Tóngzhì 同治 restoration; founder of the Xiāngjūn 湘軍 (Hunan Army), suppressor of the Tàipíng Rebellion (capital broken 1864), senior arbiter of the early Yángwù (Self-Strengthening) movement, governor-general of Liǎngjiāng (1860–1868) and Zhílì (1868–1870), and posthumously enrolled in the Confucian temple. Jìnshì of Dàoguāng 18 (1838); rose through the Hànlín and the central bureaucracy. Major works: the Zēng Wénzhènggōng quánshū 曾文正公全書 (145 juan), comprising the shījí KR4f0068, 3-juan wénjí, 4-juan zázhù, the famous jiāshū 家書 family letters, the rìjì 日記 diary, and memorials and military correspondence; the Shèngzhé huàxiàng jì 聖哲畫像記 (his programmatic statement on the canonical pantheon of historical sages); the Jīngshǐ bǎijiā záchāo 經史百家雜鈔 anthology (the foundational document of the Xiāngxiāng 湘鄉 school of late-Qīng prose, extending Tóngchéng’s 姚鼐 KR4f0052 program). ECCP 751–756 (Hummel); CBDB id 34344.