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Rh in Chihlif who devoted himself to genealogical reeearoh and earned the sobriquet of the 肉譜 Walking Dictionary of Biography.

Li Shu-ch'ang 黎庶昌  (T. 純齋). A licentiate of Eueiohon, who began his career as a secretary to Ts£ng Eao-&n, afterwards nsing fixun Magistrate to Taot^ai in Shantnng. He was ^Bcretaiy to the first ^nbassy to England, and was appointed in October 1881, while Chargd d'affaires at Madrid, to be Minister at Tokio. After a period of monming he was re-appointed, and in Jane 1891 was sent as Taot'ai to the newly-opened port of Chungking.

Li Shuai-t'ai 李率泰 (T. 叔達). Died A.D. 1666. Son of a captain of Fu-shnn in Shingking, who deserted the Ming cause. At the age of 12 he became page to the Emperor T'ai Tsu of the present dynasty, who changed his name from 延齡 Yen- Ung to Shuai-t*ai. He served in the Ch*ahar and Korea expeditions, against Li TsU-ch^fing and in the conquest of China, especially disting^shing himself at the sieges of Soochow and Foochow. In 1A54 he went as Viceroy to Canton, where he successfully coped with the Ming pretenders; and in 1656 he was transferred to Foochow, where he checked the ravages of Eozinga by increasing the fleet, and induced many of his lieutenants to surrender. Dying at his post, he was ennobled as Baron, and canonised as 忠襄.

Li Shun 李純  A.D. 778—820. Son of Li Sung, wjiom he succeeded in 805 as eleyenth Emperor of the T^ang dynasty. In 809 reforms were introduced; the revenue was r^^ulated, presents stopped, slavery forbidden, and taxes remitted. Clear-headed and determined, he re-established the control of the Court over the provincial Governors by a war which lasted from 814 to 819. Towards the end of his reign the successful monarch became a devout Buddhist and a seeker after immortelity. The pills he took to secure long life made him passionate, and he died suddenly; murdered, according to general belief, by a eunuch. His eunuch