Lao Chongguang
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| name = Lao Chongguang
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| image = 勞崇光.jpg
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| order = Viceroy of Liangguang
| term_start = 1859
| term_end = 1862
| predecessor = Wang Qingyun
| successor = Liu Changyou
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| death_date = 1867
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| occupation = Politician
| education = Jinshi degree in the Imperial Examination
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Lao Chongguang ({{zh|s=劳崇光|t=勞崇光|p=Láo Chóngguāng}}) (1802–67) was a Chinese official during the Qing dynasty and a native of Changsha County, Changsha, Hunan.
Personal life
His grandson is the Doctor of Philosophy Lao Sze-Kwang.
Political career
Lao Chongguang was considered an eminent official, as he had scored impressively high on the jinshi, the imperial examination. On October 7, 1859, Lao Chongguang was appointed governor general of Liangguang.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=34TGAgAAQBAJ&q=Lao+Chongguang&pg=PA36 |title=Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China | author=Hans Van de Ven | publisher=Columbia University Press, 2014 |date= 25 February 2014|isbn=9780231137386 |accessdate=April 22, 2015}} In March 1860, Lao met with Harry Smith Parkes, the British consul in Guangzhou, and leased Kowloon and Stonecutters Island to the United Kingdom.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EphFBAAAQBAJ&q=Lao+Chongguang+kowloon&pg=PA15 |title=Eastern Fortress: A Military History of Hong Kong, 1840–1970 |author1=Kwong Chi Man |author2=Tsoi Yiu Lun | publisher=Hong Kong University Press, 2014 |date= July 2014|isbn=9789888208708 |accessdate=April 22, 2015}}
See also
References
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Category:Politicians from Changsha
Category:Qing dynasty government officials
Category:Political office-holders in Guangdong