TSENG KUANG-CH'UAN (AMOV), Taotai; native of Hunan. Second class Secretary in Board of War; s. by adoption of Marquis Tseng; interpreter to Li Hung Chang, 1900; Expectant Metrop. Official of 5th rank; Minister to Corea, Nov., 1904; withdrawn from Seoul, 1905. upon Japanese Protectorate being proclaimed; Minister designate to France, Dec., 1905; Minister designate to Belgium, 1906; appointed substantive Taotai at Amoy, May, 1906.