Yang Sheng

Yang Sheng, photography from Who's Who in China, 3rd ed of the China weekly, Shanghai

Yang Sheng ( Chinese  楊 晟 ); (born August 23, 1867 in Shilong ; † unknown) was a Chinese diplomat .

Life

Yang Sheng graduated from Tongwen Guan (Imperial Academy of Western Languages ​​and Sciences) in Beijing . In 1877 he studied in Japan. From 1879 he spent several years at the Chinese embassy in Berlin with Jin Damin as part of a foreign study program of the Chinese government . Jin Damin became a diaochayuan (researcher) of the tongshuai banshichu (leadership bureau) in 1915.

Yang Sheng was a classmate and work colleague of Yin-Chang and had a good knowledge of the German language and the German Empire. From 1903 to 1905, Yang Sheng was envoy in Vienna . From 1905 to 1907 he was ambassador to Berlin. On November 6, 1907 he was one of the founding members of the 广东 省 教育 会 ( Guangdong Society for the Study of Self-Government). In 1909 he was again envoy in Berlin. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty , he headed police offices in Shandong and Jiangsu provinces and served as the daoyin (governor) of Shanghai District several times . From 1924 to 1927 he was Vice President of the Chinese Red Cross .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Harnisch, “Chinese Students in Germany. History and impact of their study visits in the years from 1860 to 1945 ”, No. 300 of“ Mitteilungen des Institut für Asiatkunde ”, Hamburg, 1999 561 pp. 43
2. ↑ Rhoads, Edward J. M, China's republican revolution : the case of Guangdong Sheng 1895-1913 1975 p. 154
3. ↑ Erich Gütinger, The History of the Chinese in Germany : An Overview of the First 100 Years since 1822

predecessor	Office	successor
吴德 章	Chinese envoy in Vienna 1903 to 1905	Li Jingmai
Yin-chang	Chinese envoy in Berlin 1905 to 1907
	Chinese envoy in Berlin 1909	Yin-chang

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