LI SHENG-TO (PEKING), LL.D.; Travelling Commissioner; native of Kiangsi; metropolitan graduate, 1890; (Secundus) Reader, Hanlin, 1890; Minister to Japan, Oct., 1898; Vice-Governor, Peking, Dec., 1900; was of the Empress Dowager and Yang-lu party in 1900; succeeded Chan Tung Shang, the degraded Minister-elect for Belgium, 1905-6; member of the Travelling Commission for the investigation of Foreign Parliamentary Governments, 1905-6; LL.D. conferred by Cambridge University, May, 1906.