Tong King-sing
Tong King-sing ( Chinese 唐景星 , Pinyin Tang Jǐngxīng ; Chuming 唐傑 , Tang Jie ; Zì 建時 , Jianshi ; Hào 景星 , Jǐngxīng ; further Hào 鏡心 , Jingxin * 19th May 1832 , Zhongshan , Guangdong , Chinese Empire ; † October 7, 1892 in Tianjin ), also known as Tang Tingshu ( 唐廷樞 , Táng Tíngshū ) was a Chinese comprador , translator and businessman in the late Qing dynasty.
Life
He studied as a child at Robert Morrison's Missionary School. Yung Wing was one of his classmates . Because of his knowledge of English, he got a job in the colonial administration of Hong Kong , for which he worked from 1851 to 1857. From 1857 to 1861 he worked as a translator and secretary for the Chinese maritime customs authorities. From 1861 to 1863 he was a salesman for Jardine Matheson Company in Tianjin .
He is the author of the six-volume work The Chinese-English Instructor , published in 1862.
Tong is best known for its involvement in a number of officially sponsored businesses, collectively known as an "Official and Commercial Directed Company " ( 官 督 商 Unternehmen ). From 1873 to 1884 he was the head of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company ( 輪船 招商局 ) in Shanghai . After that he worked for the coal mines in Kaiping in Hebei until his death in 1892 . In Tangshan near Kaiping he was responsible for the construction of the Kaiping Tramway together with Claude William Kinder .
literature
- Ellsworth C. Carlson: The Kaiping Mines, 1877-1912. 2nd Edition. East Asian Research Center, Cambridge, MA 1971, ISBN 0-674-49700-7 .
- Carl T. Smith: Chinese Christians elites, middlemen, and the Church in Hong Kong . Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong; London 2005, ISBN 988-220-067-2 , The Tong Brothers, pp. 35 ff . ( books.google.de ).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tong, King-sing |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Táng, Jǐngxīng; Tang, Tingshu |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese merchant |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zhongshan , Guangdong |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 7, 1892 |
| Place of death | Tianjin |