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Admiral Chen Tso-heng
陳杜衡字芳療
Admiral Chen Tso-cheng was born in Chihli province in 1865. At the age of 16, he entered Tientsin Naval College, from which he was graduated with honors in 1884. He was then sent by the government to pursue higher naval studies in England, where he specialized in gunnery at Greenwich. In 1888, he served abroad on a British man-of-war in the Mediterranean. On returning to China, he was appointed a teacher on various training ships in the Chinese navy, and also held important posts in almost all of
