Sun Chia-ku " Sun Chia-ku " was a native of Anhui who graduated as chin shih in 1856 and was a senior clerk in the Zongli Yamen when appointed in 1869 to be Co-Envoy with Anson Burlingame, then United States Minister at Beijing, on a friendly mission to foreign countries
In 1871 he was made Taot'ai at Ichang, and in 1878 Judge in Chehkian.
… which they wore on neck chains to show their solidarity with Brooks.[31] US Congressman Anson Burlingame managed to publicly humiliate Brooks in retaliation by goading him into challenging him to a duel, only to intimidate Brooks into backing down with his duel conditions. Historian William...
Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, legislator, and diplomat, born in New Berlin, Chenango County, New York. ...