Li Tieh-tseng

Li Tieh-tseng
Li Tieh-tseng
	李铁铮
Ambassador of the Republic of China to Iran
	In office; 1937 – October 4, 1945
Succeeded by	Zheng Yitong
Ambassador of the Republic of China to Thailand
	In office; September 9, 1946 – April 3, 1948
Preceded by	Wang Qingzhang
Succeeded by	Xie Baoqiao 谢保樵
Personal details
Born	1906; Changsha, Hunan
Died	January 28, 1990 (aged 83–84)
Alma mater	From 1924 till July of 1928 he studied political science at the National Southeast University and participated in the struggle against the downgrading of the University to a province University. In 1953 doctorate in political science of Columbia University.; In 1956 doctor of philosophy from University of London International Programmes.; In autumn of 1976 he was senior fellow at the University of Michigan and Stanford University.;

Li Tieh-tseng (1906 – January 28, 1990) was a Chinese ambassador.

In 1928, shortly after graduation, he was appointed county magistrate of Nan County but was forced to leave.[1]
Since then he taught at the School of law at the Wuhan University.
From 1932 to 1936 he was secretary of the embassy in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.
From 1937 to 1942 he was minister next to Reza Shah in Tehran (Iran) with concurrent accreditation in Baghdad (Iraq).
From May 12, 1942 until October 4, 1945 he was ambassador in Tehran with concurrent accrediton in Baghdad.[2]
On July 24, 1946 he was designated ambassador to Bangkok (Kingdom of Siam) where he was accredited from September 9, 1946 till April 3, 1948.[3]
In 1949 he was resident adviser to the Chinese mission next to the UN Headquarter in Lake Success, New York.
On 1 October 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China he resigned from the Republic of China government diplomat duties, and instead engaged in international politics and international relations research.
His doctoral thesis, from The London School of Economics and Political Science, was on The problems of Tibet in Sino-British relations
From 1964 to 1966 he was professor at Beijing Foreign Affairs College.
In 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, he had disappeared, but he reappeared as a senior researcher.[4]

References

Shanghai massacre of 1927 Period "shelter the common people dismissed from office" “庇共殃民撤職查辦”
Li Tieh-tseng was appointed the first Chinese Minister to Iran on May 5, 1942. and presented his credentials on June 29, 1942. see China Handbook, MacMillan Company, 1947, p. 182
SIAM Diplomatic Missions—The Chinese Mission to Siam headed by Li Tieh-tseng arrived in Bangkok on January 9, 1946 to discuss with the Siamese Government matters pertaining to the conclusion of a Sino-Siamese Treaty of Amity. China Handbook, Chinese Ministry of Information, 1950, p. 341
Wolfgang Bartke, Who was who in the People's Republic of China, Volume 1, K.G. Saur, 1997, 700 p., p. 242 LI, Tieh-tseng Govt, official, native of Hunan, born in 1905; LI.B., National Central Univ.; Ambassador to Iran, 1942-46; Ambassador to Siam, 1946-48; adviser, Chinese Delegation to U.N., since 1949.

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