# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tong-king-sing
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:06:50.120Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tong-king-sing"
name: "Tong King-sing"
slug: "tong-king-sing"
description: "Tang Jingxing, also known as Tang Tingshu, was a Chinese comprador, interpreter, and businessman during the late Qing dynasty. Born in Xiangshan, Guangdong province, he studied in Robert Morrison's missionary schools as a boy and his classmates included Yung Wing. Because of the knowledge of English he obtained employment in the Hong Kong colonial government between 1851–57 and 1857–61, he served the Chinese Maritime Customs Service as interpreter and chief secretary. In 1861, he joined the Jardine Matheson Company, initially as a travelling salesman, visiting the various Yangtze River ports. In 1863 he was promoted and appointed Jardine Mathesion's Compradore in Shanghai. He was so successful in developing the company's trade he was soon made Chief Compradore responsible for all the company's compradores in other Chinese ports. Tang authored the work The Chinese Instructor, a six-volume series of dialogues, published in 1862."
tagline: "Chinese comprador, interpreter, and businessman during the late Qing dynasty (1832-1892)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Tang_Ting_Shu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Founders"
  slug: "founders"
profileType:
  name: "Founder"
  slug: "founder"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131524"
birthDate: "1832-05-19"
deathDate: "1892-10-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.73
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.021276
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "唐廷枢"
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    title: "تونج كينج سينج"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Tong King-Sing"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_King-sing"
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  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%94%90%E5%BB%B7%E6%9E%A2"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tong_King-sing"
    title: "Tong King-sing"
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  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%B9%D9%88%D9%86%DA%AF_%DA%A9%D9%86%DA%AF-%D8%B3%D9%86%DA%AF"
    title: "ٹونگ کنگ-سنگ"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump