Tang Tingshu: The first modern entrepreneur of China;

TANG Ting-shu and the Changes of Modern Tangshan's Economy and Society

In the period of the Westernization Movement,Li Hong-zhang appointed Tang Ting-shu,who had a comprador background,to manage the civil enterprises such as Commercial Shipping Bureau,Li Hong-zhang knew his subordinates and assigned them properly,Tang Ting-shu was very practical and responsible.

Beginning from the emergence of the Bohai kingdom, it actively conducted its diplomatic activities, especially in the cultural exchange with the Tang government and Japan, which promoted its political maturation and economic growth.

Zhao Tingshu and His Suoyuan Collection of Poems;