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to the Board of War in 1679, he procured the union of Sslich^uan and Shensi under one Viceroy, so as to harmonise their conflicting interests. In 1684 he becan^e a Qrand Secretary. It was through ' his influence that the Emperor E^aog Hsi sufiered the women taken captive during the great rebellions to be ransomed, instead of being handed over as prizes to Bannermen. Canonised as ^ ^. Sung Tz*tL Tao ^^^^ 4th cent. A.D. A famous bibliophile, 1839 who possessed a great many books the text of which had been carefully verified several times. So many scholars came to live in his neighbourhood for the convenience of borrowing important works that house-rents went up in consequence.

Sang Wu-Chi ^^ JSl,. 4th cent. B.C. A magician, who was 1840 supposed to have learned the black art from some legendary personage named ^ P^ "T* ]^ Hsien-men Tzti Kao. He is said to have persuaded the Princes of Ch4 and Ten to send expeditions to search for the Isles of the Blest. See HbU Shih. Sung Tti ^ 3E . 4th cent. B.C. Nephew of the famous Ch'fl 1841 Yilan, and like his uncle both a statesman and a poet. Is one of the authors of the collection known as the ^ ^ Elegies of Ch'u.

Sung Yun ^^. An official who in A.D. 518 was sent by 1842 the Empress Dowager, then Regent of the Northern Wei dynasty, to India, in company with a priest named Hui Sh^ng, to obtain Buddhist books. He travelled to Kandahar, stayed two years in Odyana, and returned with 175 Buddhist works. See Bodhidharma. Sung-yun ^^ (T. ^^y$). A.D. 1753-1835. A Mongol, 1843 who began life as a bitgeshi or clerk in one of the public offices, and rose by 1793 to be a member of the Grand Council. At this time, according to the Chinese record, a tribute-bearing mission arrived from the English (t. e. Lord Macartney's Embassy), requesting permission to trade at the ports of Tientsin and Ningpo, and