K'UO-P'U-T'UNG-WU (HSI-NING), native of Manchuria; metropolitan graduate, 1886. Tutor, Imperial Academy; Deputy Supervisor, Imperial Instruction, 1894; Expositor, Hanlin, 1894; degraded to sub-Reader, Hanlin, May, 1894; assistant Supervisor of Instruction, June, 1895; Chief Supervisor of Instruction, April, 1893; sub-Chancellor, Grand Secretariat, Sept., 1896; Vice -President, Board of Ceremonies, Sept., 1898; Imperial Agent, Hsi-ning, Dec., 1898; retired May, 1903.