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Rh after the fall of ^ ^ Chien-ning Fa. His titles were then restored and he was stationed at Foochow, and later at Ch'ao-choo Fa, as Goaeralissimo against Kozinga. In 1677 he was again charged with treason; bat the Emperor waited until he came to Peking for audience in 1680, when he was tried on his brother's accusation and in 1681 he was publicly executed.

Kêng Shih. See Liu Hsüan.

Kêng Wei. 8th cent. A.D. A native of Ho-tung in Shansi, who graduated as chin shih in 762 and distinguished himself as an official and poet under the T^ang dynasty. He was one of the Ten Men of Genius of the period A.D. 766 — 779, and author of two lines which have become almost proverbial: —


 * Hireling respect "with loss of fortune ends,
 * And loss of influence means loss of friends.

Ki-ying or Keying. Died A.D. 1856. A Manchu, who had risen by 1835 to be President of the Board of Revenue. In 1842 he took a leading part in the negotiations at Nanking which brought the so-called Opium War to a conclusion. In 1843 he proceeded to Canton, and shortly afterwards became Viceroy of the Two Euang, a post which he filled with considerable success until 1848. Returning to Peking, he became mixed up in Court intrigues and was deprived of power and of most of his honours. In 1856 he seems to have made a bid for re-admission into public life by suggesting to the Emperor that his influence would procure the withdrawal of the foreign men-of-war then at Tientsin with Lord Elgin. He accordingly appeared upon the scene as Commissioner; but finding himself altogether unable to carry out this programme, he returned hastily to the capital, where he was ordered to commit suicide. Throughout his career he had shown himself liberal-minded towards the hated foreigner, and in 1844 had actually memorialised the Emperor to obtain a meed of toleration for Christianity.