YÜan Shih-Kai
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...From 1885 to 1894 he was the Chinese resident in Korea, then under Chinese suzerainty. He supported the dowager empress, Tzu Hsi, against the reform movement (1898) of Emperor Kuang Hsu, and she rewarded him with the vice regency of Zhili (now Hebei...