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2 unusual facts about Sun Chia-ku


Sun Chia-ku

Sun Chia-ku was a native of Anhui who graduated as chin shih in 1856 and was a senior clerk in the Tsung-li Yamen when appointed in 1869 to be Co-Envoy with Anson Burlingame, then United States Minister at Beijing, on a friendly mission to foreign countries.

It was as a forecast of the results of this mission that Burlingame announced the speedy appearance of "a shining cross on every hill" in the Middle Kingdom.



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