Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period/I Pi
I Pi 伊闢 (T. 盧原, H. 翕菴), June 14, 1623–1681, June 23, official, was a native of Hsin-ch'êng near Tsinan, Shantung. He became a chin-shih in 1655 along with Wang Shih-chên [q. v.]. After a year or more of study in the Hanlin Academy he was appointed a censor, and in 1657 was sent to Shansi to inspect the administration of that province. Having accomplished this, he returned to Peking in 1659 and resumed his duties as censor. He was made secretary of the Transmission Office in 1670 and after several promotions became director of the Court of Sacrificial Worship in 1678. Early in 1680 he became director of the Court of Judicature and Revision. By April of that year he was called to leave the comparative ease of the capital to become governor of Yunnan where military operations were in progress against the forces of Wu Shih-fan (see under Wu San-kuei) which held the capital of the province. It was hoped that he would be able to restore peace and harmony in that province and he made vigorous efforts toward that end, but was taken seriously ill and died in June of the following year. The task of pacification was reported accomplished within five months after his death.
[1/262/8b; 3/156/8a; Tsinan fu-chih (1841) 55/ 42a.]