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Mu Ying 1^ ^ (T. ;^ ^). Died A.D. 1392. A native of 1560 ^ JS '^Dg-y^Aii iu Anhui, who in 1S84 was appointed Governor of Ytlnnan, an office held also by his sons in succession. In 1388 he gained a great victory over the Burmese, who were led by the rebel Chinese Commissioner J^ j^ ^ Ssti Lun-fa, his cannon and powerful crossbows proving too much for the mailed elephants; and in the following year Burmah acknowledged the suzerainty of China. Posthumously ennobled as Prince, and canonised as ^ j||.

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Nan Tzii ^^. 6th and 5th cent. B.C. Sister of |9 Ch'ao, a 1561 Doble of the Sung State, with whom she had an incestuous connection, and afterwards wife of the Duke of the Wei State. Confucius was blamed by Chung Yu for allowing himself to be seen in her

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Ng ChOF ^ tK (T. ^ ^ and ® ^. H. ^ 0). Born 1562 at Singapore in 1842, he was brought back to China at the age of four and was educated at a native school in Euangtung until he was thirteen, when he went to St. Paul's Collie in Hongkong. There he remained until his twentieth year, at which date he entered the service of the Hongkong Government as interpreter in the law courts. In 1874 he went to England, entered at Lincoln's Inn, and was called to the Bar in 1877. After practising as a barrister in Hongkong until 1882, he joined the official staff of the Viceroy of Chihli. In 1895 he accompanied Chang. Yin-huan upon his abortive peace-mission to Japan, and was also a member of the embassy of Li Huug-chang which three months later resulted in