Tseng Kuo-fan

(Pinyin) Zeng Guo·fan

[dzuhng gwaw-fahn]

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noun

1811–72, Chinese general and statesman.

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He answers me, 'It is the beneficent rule of their Majesties the Empresses- Dowager; it is the unspeakable felicity vouchsafed by Heaven to the Emperor; it is the loyalty and virtue of those in high places, of Tseng Kuo-fan, of Li Hung-chang, of Tso Tsung-t'ang.'