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 change was immaterial, advised that Elliot be permitted to proceed on the terms previously granted to taipans. The request was sanctioned.

In 1838 was appointed Imperial Commissioner to Kwangtung with a view to solving the opium problem. Têng and Lin co-operated well on this matter, and the two became close friends. Early in 1840 Têng was made governor-general of Min-Chê (Fukien and Chekiang) at a time when the coast of Fukien was threatened by the British, who on July 5, 1840, took Tinghai on Chusan Island off the coast of Chekiang. About the same time Amoy was bombarded by a British ship. Têng made his headquarters at Ch'üan-chou, Fukien, where he raised new forces to bolster the defense of Amoy. Before long both he and Lin were dismissed from their posts on grounds of incompetency—both being blamed for the unhappy outcome of the opium question which had involved the nation in a war with England (see under ). In the following year (1841) both Têng and Lin were sentenced to exile in Ili. Though Lin was first detained for river conservancy work in Honan, Têng set out for Chinese Turkestan soon after the sentence. Having gone into exile earlier than Lin, he also returned before the latter. In the summer of 1843 he was pardoned, and early in 1844 was made financial commissioner of Kansu, in special charge of colonization work. Promoted to governor of Shensi in 1845, he died at his post in 1846.

Têng T'ing-chên was a student of phonetics and also a poet. A collection of his works, entitled 雙硯齋集 Shuang-yen chai chi, printed in 1922 by his great-grandson, Têng Pang-shu 鄧邦述, contains: 6 chüan of miscellaneous notes, entitled Shuang-yen chai pi-chi (筆記); two works on phonetics, entitled 詩雙聲疊韻譜 Shih shuang-shêng tieh-yün p'u, and Hsü-shih Shuo-wên (許氏說文) shuang-shêng tieh-yün p'u; 16 chüan of verse, entitled Shuang-yen chai shih-ch'ao (詩鈔); and 2 chüan of tz'ŭ or poems in irregular meter, entitled Shuang-yen chai tz'ŭ-ch'ao (詞鈔). Appended to it are two collections of verse by two of his grandsons: 晴花暖玉詞 Ch'ing-hua nuan-yü tz'ŭ, by Têng Chia-chên 鄧嘉縝 ; and 空一切盦詞 K'ung-i-ch'ieh an tz'ŭ, by Têng Chia-ch'un 鄧嘉純.

Têng T'ing-chên's ancestor, Têng Hsü (see above), had a large collection of books which seems not to have been well cared for by his descendants—what was left of it was destroyed during the Taiping Rebellion. The abovementioned Têng Pang-shu, who rose from a Hanlin compiler to commissioner of civil affairs of Kirin (1910–11), made a considerable collection of rare books which was purchased by the Academia Sinica (中央研究院) in 1927. In 1929 he published two catalogues of the rare books he had once possessed. These catalogues, entitled 羣碧樓善本書目 Ch'ün-pi lou shan-pên shu-mu, 6 chüan, and Han-sou shan-fang yü-ts'un (寒瘦山房鬻存) shan-pên shu-mu, 7 chüan, contain valuable bibliographical notes.

The eldest son of Têng T'ing-chên, named Têng Êr-hêng 鄧爾恆, served as an official in Yunnan from 1848 to 1860. Late in 1860 he was appointed governor of Kweichow and early in 1861 he was transferred to Shensi. He was murdered at Ch'ü-ching on his way back from Yunnan and was canonized as Wên-k'o 文恪. Têng T'ingchên’s fourth Son, Têng Êr-chin 鄧爾晉, lost his life fighting the Taipings while serving on the secretarial staff in the Great Camp of Kiangnan (see under ).

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 T'IEH-pao 鐵保, Feb. 28, 1752–1824, Feb. 2, official, was a member of the Donggo Clan and belonged to the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner. It is reported that an ancestor who was taken to Donggo—near K'uan-tien, southeast of Mukden—by the Ju-chên (see under ), probably in the twelfth century, was descended from the Sung Emperor Ying-tsung 宋英宗 (personal names 趙曙 and 趙宗實, 1032–1067). Under the Manchu dynasty the family produced a line of military men, T'ieh-pao being the first to attain prominence in letters. He became a chin-shih in 1772 and was appointed a secretary in the Board of Civil Offices—later (1778) rising to a department director. His talents were highly commended by, and in 1780 he was made a supervisor of Imperial Instruction, thus 717