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Tseng Kuo-fan

American  
[dzuhng gwaw-fahn] / ˈdzʌŋ ˈgwɔˈfɑn /
(Pinyin) Zeng Guofan

noun

  1. 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.'

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