CHEN Shiwei
Portrait of General Tso (Zuo Zongtang), by Pavel Piassetsky, 1875. Zuo Zongtang, a Chinese statesman, served during China’s fourteen-year-long Taiping Rebellion.
Zuo Zongtang was a renowned military leader of nineteenth-century China; he led the Chinese military in the suppression of the Muslim and Nian rebellions (1868–1880), negotiated with the Russians, and led the war against the French in 1884–1885.
Zuo Zongtang ??? (1812–1885) was born to a scholarly family in Hunan
