Liang Chen

This article is about the diplomat Liang Chen. For the tennis player of the same name, see Liang Chen (tennis player) .

Liang Chen portrait

Liang Chen ( Chinese  梁 诚 ), Hào name Zhendong ( Chinese  震东 ); (* 1864 in the Haizhu district of Guangzhou city ; † 1917 ) was a diplomat of the Qing Dynasty .

Life

From 1872 to 1881 Liang Cheng took part in the Chinese Educational Mission (CEM study trips) to the United States with about 120 fellow students and studied at Yale College in 1882 . In 1897, Liang Cheng was delegation secretary of the Chinese Mission to the Diamond Jubeelee of Victoria and was accepted by her as Knight Commander in the Order of St. Michael and St. George . In 1902 Liang Cheng was attaché to the embassy in London when Prince Qing came to London for the coronation of Edward VII , Zaizhen, the eldest son of Yikuang. Liang Cheng was appointed ambassador to Washington, DC , Madrid and Lima in the summer of 1903 . From March 1904 to 1908 he was envoy of the Qing Dynasty in Washington, DC and visited the governments of La Paz and Havana . In the fall of 1904 he was accredited to the government of Porfirio Díaz .

During his tenure, the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 fell victim to numerous people with a Chinese immigrant background . His diplomatic successes include averting massive deportations of people with a Chinese immigrant background from Mexico and the United States of America.

Beijing – Hankou Railway

In the era of Zhang Zhidong , investors were also sought for the Lu-Han Beijing - Wuhan railway line infrastructure project . For investors based in the Russian Empire, an overlap with the strategic importance of the railway line for the imperial interests of the Russian government was notorious. United States-based investors, such as the American China Development Syndicate , had the merit that the US government's imperial interests in Asia were viewed as less immediate. Like Wu Tingfang, Liang Cheng tried to sign a contract with the American China Development Syndicate for the railway line, which failed because the US company openly demanded control of the operating company of the railway line. The order was awarded to the Société d'études des chemins de fer en Chine , founded in Brussels in 1897 , which was strategically assigned to the Franco-Russian bloc. The profitable line, completed on November 12, 1905, was brought under Chinese control in 1909.

His skill in negotiating with the Theodore Roosevelt cabinet contributed to the establishment of Tsinghua University in Beijing in 1911 with compensation from the Chinese government for the Boxer Rebellion in the United States, which is why it is also known as Liang Cheng University.

From March 21, 1910 to November 1, 1912 he was envoy in Berlin . In China, the Beiyang government came to power after an uprising in Hubei .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Liang Cheng, The Diplomatic Hero ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Joseph A. Reaves, Taking in a Game : A History of Baseball in Asia, p. 26
3. ↑ Linda Pomerantz-Zhang, Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) : Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History, 1992, 320 pp., 145
4. ↑ Linda Pomerantz-Zhang, Wu Tingfang (1842-1922) : Reform and Modernization in Modern Chinese History, 1992, 320 pp., 109
5. ↑ Henry George Wandesforde Woodhead, Henry Thurburn Montague Bell, The China yearbook, 1969 S. 270

predecessor	Office	successor
Wu Tingfang	Chinese envoy in Madrid 1902–1903	Sun Baoqi
Wu Tingfang	Chinese envoy to Washington, DC 1904–1908	Wu Tingfang
Yin-chang	Chinese envoy in Berlin 1910–1912	Yan Huiqing

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Liang is the family name here, Chen is the first name.