Nie Shicheng

Summary

Nie Shicheng was a Chinese general of the Qing dynasty who served the imperial government during the Boxer Rebellion. Rising from obscure origins from Hefei, Anhui Province, in the early 1850s, Nie Shicheng managed to pass the county examinations for bureaucratic positions, but due to the Taiping Rebellion he was forced to abandon a bureaucratic career and become a soldier.