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42 and succeeded in inflicting a severe defeat upon the invaders. After further useful services, he was employed against the Kitan Tartars, and won several victories, capturing two of their leaders, whose heads he forwarded to the capital. In 735 he had an audience of the Emperor, and was appointed generalissimo of the empire. Once more in the field against the Kitans, he continued his career of success, until the defeat of one of his lieutenants, 烏知義 Wu Chih-i. This reverse he concealed; but the truth soon leaked out, and he was dismissed as Governor of 括 Kua-chou in Chehkiang, where he died of a carbuncle.   Chang Shu-yeh 張叔夜 (T. 稽仲). Died A.D. 1127. A military commander under the Emperor of the Sung dynasty. Summoned to aid in defending the capital against the China Tartars, he succeeded after a bloody fight, which lasted four days, in defeating their forces and killing two of their generals; but he was not able to keep his advantage, and the city fell. He urged instant flight, and would have got away with the Emperor, had not the latter been bent upon trying his own divine influence in the Tartar camp. The Emperor was made prisoner, and carried away northwards. Chang followed his master's fortunes; but grief prevented him from taking food, and he died on reaching 白溝 Po-kou in Chihli. Canonised as 忠文.   Chang-t'ai Liu 章臺柳. 8th cent A.D. The name given to the wife (née Liu) of Han Hung the poet, from the place of her birth, near Ch'ang-an in Shensi. Separated from him during the troublous period of A.D. 756, she sought refuge in a nunnery. She was subsequently taken as wife by a Tartar chieftain, but through the intervention of the Emperor she was ultimately restored to her husband.   Chang T'ang-ying 張唐英 (T. 次功). 11th cent. A.D. A native of 新津 Hsin-chin in Ssŭch'uan, who graduated as chin