Yuan Shuxun

Yuan Shuxun (袁树勋, Yuán Shùxūn) was Shanghai daotai from 1901 and dealt with the settlements through several of their sharpest disputes over Chinese jurisdiction. He had served as a county magistrate in Jiangsu and as acting Shanghai county magistrate in 1891 before taking the daotai post.

In 1902 he concluded the Supplementary Mixed Court Regulations with the consular body, and he took a direct part in the Subao case. In 1905 he negotiated with the senior consul and the British consul after the British assessor Twyman caused a disturbance at the Mixed Court. In the same year he expressed sympathy for the local self-government proposal of Li Pingshu (李平书, Lǐ Píngshū) to set up a works bureau for the city’s Chinese districts. He later served as governor of Shandong and, from 1909, Viceroy of Liangguang, then resigned in 1910 and settled in Shanghai.