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 the Hsiao-fang-hu chai yü-ti tsung-ch'ao (see under ).

[1/488/30a; 7/36/20a; 8/3下/5a; 6/43/24b (for Tsou Tai-chün).]

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 TSOU Jung 鄒容, 1885–1905, Apr. 3, anti-Manchu writer, was a native of Pa-hsien (Chungking), Szechwan. His father was a merchant. In 1901 he was sent to Shanghai, and a year later to Japan, to study. He adopted whole-heartedly the revolutionary ideas prevalent among the Chinese students in that country (see under ). When he had been in Japan about a year he set forth his ideas of revolt from the Manchu regime in a work, entitled 革命軍 Ko-ming chün ("The Revolutionary Army"). After he had led a group of students in an attack on the official sent by the Peking Government to supervise Chinese students in Japan, he fled to Shanghai where a bookseller published the Ko-ming chün for him.

Meanwhile Tsou made the acquaintance of other revolutionists, including Chang Ping-lin (see under ), then a contributor to the Shanghai newspaper, 蘇報 Su-pao. On May 31, 1903, Chang wrote an editorial attacking Kang Yu-wei (see under ) and his faction for favoring a constitutional monarchy under the Manchu Emperor,. In this article Chang referred to Tsai-t'ien by name and described him as hsiao-ch'ou 小醜, a "low wretch". Nine days later a favorable review of the Ko-ming chün appeared. These articles so aroused the Ch'ing government that a telegram was sent to the Shanghai authorities ordering them to arrest Chang, Tsou, and four other men, and to suppress the paper. Chang was arrested in the International Settlement and Tsou Jung, who was not found at once, later gave himself up. The trial by a mixed court was unsatisfactory to the Ch'ing government, which wanted to have the prisoners extradited. The request might have been approved, but while the foreign diplomats in Shanghai were debating the matter, Shên Chin 沈藎, a newspaper reporter and a former colleague of Tang Ts'ai-ch'ang (see under ), was beaten to death in Peking by order of the government. This shocked the diplomats and influenced their decision to hold the prisoners in the Foreign Settlement. In 1904 Chang was sentenced to three years of hard labor and Tsou to two years. Tsou died in prison one month before his term was up, having reached only the age of twenty. Chang Ping-lin, however, served out his term and was released, but continued his revolutionary activities. In time he became a scholar of high repute.

Tsou Jung's Ko-ming chün is one of the important documents in the Chinese revolt against the Manchus. In it the youthful leader advocated the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty and the monarchy, and the establishment of a Chinese Republic. He rebuked, and  for their support of the Manchus in suppressing the Taiping Rebellion, and urged his countrymen to realize their status as slaves under alien rulers. The revolution that Tsou worked for took place in 1911, only six years after his death.

[Ko-ming chün (1928 ed.); Kao Liang-tso 高良佐, 記清末兩大文字獄 in 建國月刊 Chien-kuo yüeh-k'an, vol. 10, no. 2 (1934); 6/57/3b; Shanghai yen-chiu tzŭ-liao (研究資料) hsü-chi (1939), pp. 43–48, 71–143.]

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TSU Ta-shou 祖大壽, d. 1656, Ming general, was a native of Liaotung. In 1620, when he was a major in charge of one of the fortresses in that district, he received with others special commendation from the generalissimo,. In 1620 he was transferred to army headquarters at Kuang-ning, under the command of. When this city fell to the Manchus in March 1622, Tsu retired to the island of Chüeh-hua, just off the coast, to defend the granaries. Shortly afterwards, he was ordered to assist in the fortification and defense of Ning-yuan, and was in the latter city in 1626 when the Manchus attacked. Tsu and successfully held Ning-yüan, employing "foreign" cannon (see under ) to devastate the enemy, but Manchu raiding parties meanwhile overran the island, causing heavy casualties. In the following year (1627) Ning-yüan was again attacked by the Manchus, but without success. In 1628 Tsu was advanced by the emperor to the post of brigade-general of the Frontline Troops with headquarters at Chinchou. In 1630 he recovered Luan-chou which had recently been captured by the Manchus, causing the retirement of from Yung-p'ing. When he was inspecting the fortifications of Ta-ling-ho in 1631, the city was surrounded 769