[or Marquis Tseng]. Envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from China to the courts of London, Paris and St. Petersburgh; the eldest son of Tseng Kwofan, the first marquis, and the most distinguished statesman who had appeared in China for many years. He is a native of Hunan. He succeeded his kinsman, Two Ta-Jen, as minister of China to the courts of London and Paris in 1878, and afterward, when the question of the retrocession of Kuldja threatened to produce a rupture of friendly relations between Russia and China, he was also accredited to St. Petersburg. It was by him that the treaty of St. Petersburg, replacing that of Livadia, was negotiated; and in 1883 he endeavored to come to an arrangement with France on the subject of Tonquin. He was the representative of China in Europe for five years. See also “Characteristics of the French and English,” “Western Arts and Civilization Derived from China.” and “The Earl of Beaconsfield.”
