Li Tieh-tseng

Li Tieh-tseng was a Chinese ambassador. In 1928, shortly after graduation, he was appointed county magistrate of Nan County but was forced to leave. 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 with concurrent accreditation in Baghdad. From until he was ambassador in Tehran with concurrent accreditation in Baghdad. On he was designated ambassador to Bangkok where he was accredited from till. In 1949 he was resident adviser to the Chinese mission next to the UN Headquarters 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 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.