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Kung Chao-Yuan

Kung Chao-Yuan

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Kung Chao-Yuan (1836 – July 20, 1897) was a Chinese Ambassador.

  • In 1888 he was Shanghai Custom Taotai responsible for the public investment in the Huahsin Spinning and Weaving Company in Shanghai.
  • From 1893 to 1896 he was sent by Li Hongzhang as ambassador to the Court of St James's and was concurrently accredited in Rome.
  • In London he trapped Sun Yat-sen in his legation, but had to release him under British pressure.[1]
  • In 1896 he left London already seriously ill.[2]
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    release of Sun Yat-sen from the Chinese legation, than he assured the Chinese minister that Her Majesty's government would do all that was 'legally in their power to prevent any British territory being used for preparing conspiracies against the Chinese government or its officers.
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    Léon Wieger, China throughout the ages, Hsien press, 1928, 508 pp.p. 346
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