Li Hongzhang's Court - A Gathering of Talent

Author: Ouyang Yuefeng
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: The Li Hongzhang's in modern China lasted for 40 years, with 20 officials holding the rank of governor or higher, and over 10 serving as foreign envoys. It included modern industrialists, scientists, famous Westernizers, early reform thinkers, bourgeois enlightenment thinkers, bourgeois revolutionaries, and hundreds of foreigners. They formed a powerful Huai'an faction, contributing to Li Hongzhang's achievements in life and promoting the modernization of Chinese society. Interpreting this unique social group from different perspectives can yield diverse insights.