(date unknown) Tutor to family of Viceroy Li Hongzhang 李鸿章 ; 1882 Translator at Chinese Consulate in New York; 1884 transferred to Chinese Legation in Washington1; 1885 Acting Consul General at Straits Settlement;
1887 Vice-Consul in New York City (Plain Dealer, 1887.10.7, p. 1); 1889 Translator and attache at Chinese Legation, Washington (Foreign Legations in the United States, Congressional Directory, 1889.12.5, p. 178); 1895 Spring: Secretary at Chinese Consulate, Singapore; 1897 January - 1899 May: Acting Consul General, then Consul General in Singapore, with concurrent responsibility for Penang, Malacca and nearby islands2; 1897 Secretary to Chinese Minister in London for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee, after which he travelled with the embassy to Europe and America (Straits Times, 1899.8.30); 1900 Secretary at Chinese Legation in London1; 1902 Chargé d’Affaires in Brussels1; 1904 November - 1907 September: first Chinese Consul General in South Africa; post established September 1904 following Anglo-Chinese contract labor agreement2; 1907 Appointed head of committee conducting the opium investigation in Peking (New York Times, 20 Dec. 1907, p.3); 1909 Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs1,2; 1909 Together with Tong Kwo On (Tang Guoan 唐国安 IV, 91), Liu represented China at the International Opium Commission held February 1-26 in Shanghai; 1910 Aug. 31 appointed 1 of the 3 plenipotentiary representatives of China to the International Opium Conference to be held at The Hague in May, 1911 (1911.3.3 Papers Relating to the Foreign Affairs of the United States: China, p. 325); 1910 September appointed Minister to Great Britain; assumed post in December; At an unknown date after the Qing regime ended, he was appointed Minister of The Republic of China to London until 1914, when Liu retired from diplomatic service; 1,2 1912 Aug. 30: "His Excellency Lew Yuk Lin, the Chinese Minister to the Court of St. James in London duly authorized and acting for and on behalf of the Republic of China" signed a £10 million gold loan from C. Birch Crisp & Co. of London, on behalf of the Chinese Government. 4 1917-1923 High Adviser to Canton Military Government; salt commissioner for Kwangtung and Kwangsi [The China Year Book, Part 2 (Shanghai: North China Daily News & Herald, 1928) p. 1145] |