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^ Ssti-ch*6ng Id Euangsi. He was a mere stripling when the T*ai-p4ng rebellion broke out, yet he succeeded in maintaining a force of militia for some years. In 1855 he was in temporary charge of a small District in Yflnnan, and in 1864 he Inred the Miao-tzti of north-eastern Yflnnan to submit, only to massacre them upon submission. By 1867 he had risen to be Treasurer for Ydnnan. In 1872, when Ta-li Fu was reduced by ^ 3E ^ Yang Yfl-k'o, T8*6n demanded the life of Tu Wto-hsiu only; but eleven days later he invited the chief men of the town to a feast, and after putting them all to death gave the signal for a general massacre in which 80,000 persons are said to have been butchered. la 1874 he became Grovernor of Yflnnan, and in 1875 he served on the Yflnnan Commission for enquiring into the murder of Margary, a murder which some laid at his door. In 1882 he was appointed Viceroy of Yflnnan and Kneichou. In 1884—85 he was in command on the Tongking border, and was ennobled. At death he was included in the Temple of Worthies. He was a bitter foe to foreigners, by whom however he was not more detested for cruelty and unscrupulousness than by the majoritj of his own fellow-countrymen.

2019 TsSng Chi-tse ^ Jffi ^ (T. ±jf RlJ . H. ^^ and ^ H

and ^ i^ and ^ ^). A.D. 1837-1890. The eldest son of Ts^ng Kuo-fan. After mourning for his father and mother for two periods of three years each, he succeeded in 1877 to the title and was thenceforth known to foreigners as the "Marquis Ts6ng." Wiih the aid of a NuttalFs dictionary and a Murray's grammar he had meanwhile studied English to such advantage that although nefer able to converse with fluency he could write intelligibly and even made several attempts at versification. Later on, an article entitled China: The Sleep and the Awakening appeared over his signature in an English magazine; but this was of course only "inspired*