Tsai Ting Kan (Wade-Giles spelling: Ts'ai Ting-kan; simplified Chinese: 蔡廷干; traditional Chinese: 蔡廷幹; pinyin: Cài Tínggàn; 字 耀堂 Yao Tang) (April 5, 1861, Xiangshan County – September 24, 1935, Beijing) was a Chinese naval officer. Tsai was educated in the United States as a student on the Chinese Educational Mission and became an admiral in the Qing dynasty navy and Republican era statesman and politician.[1]
- ^ "Ts'ai T'ing-kan," in Howard Boorman, ed., Biographical Dictionary of Republican China, Vol III (New York: Columbia University Press, 1967), pp. 293–295.