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A Chinese Biographical Dictionary
109 Chang Shu-yeh 張叔夜 (T. 稽仲). Died A.D. 1127. A military commander under the Emperor Ch'in Tsung of the Sung dynasty. Summoned to aid in defending the capital against the China Tartars, he succeeded after a bloody fight, which lasted four days, in defeating their forces and killing two of their generals; but he was not able to keep his advantage, and the city fell. He urged instant flight, and would have got away with the Emperor, had not the latter been bent upon trying his own divine influence in the Tartar camp. The Emperor was made prisoner, and carried away northwards. Chang followed his master's fortunes; but grief prevented him from taking food, and he died on reaching 白溝 Po-kou in Chihli. Canonised as 忠文. 110 Chang-t'ai Liu 章臺柳. 8th cent A.D. The name given to the wife (née Liu) of Han Hung the poet, from the place of her birth, near Ch'ang-an in Shensi. Separated from him during the troublous period of A.D. 756, she sought refuge in a nunnery. She was subsequently taken as wife by a Tartar chieftain, but through the intervention of the Emperor she was ultimately restored to her husband. 111
Chang T'ang-ying 張唐英 (T. 次功). 11th cent. A.D. A native of 新津 Hsin-chin in Ssŭch'uan, who graduated as chin