| Li Tieh-tseng | |
| Native Name: | 李铁铮 |
| Native Name Lang: | zh |
| Other Names: | Li Tiezheng |
| Office: | Ambassador of the Republic of China to Iran |
| Successor: | Zheng Yitong |
| Office2: | Ambassador of the Republic of China to Thailand |
| Successor2: | Xie Baoqiao 谢保樵 |
| Birth Place: | Changsha, Hunan |
| Alma Mater: | From 1924 till July 1928 he studied political science at the National Southeast University and participated in the struggle against the downgrading of the University to a province University.
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Li Tieh-tseng (1906 - January 28, 1990) was a Chinese ambassador. In 1928, shortly after graduation, he was appointed county magistrate of Nan County but was forced to leave.[1] Since then he taught at the School of Law at the Wuhan University.
From 1932 to 1936 he was secretary of the embassy in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. From 1937 to 1942 he was minister next to Reza Shah in Tehran (Iran) with concurrent accreditation in Baghdad (Iraq). From until he was ambassador in Tehran with concurrent accreditation in Baghdad.[2] On he was designated ambassador to Bangkok (Kingdom of Siam) where he was accredited from till .[3] In 1949 he was resident adviser to the Chinese mission next to the UN Headquarters in Lake Success, New York. On 1 October 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China he resigned from the Republic of China government diplomat duties, and instead engaged in international politics and international relations research.
His doctoral thesis, from The London School of Economics and Political Science, was on The problems of Tibet in Sino-British relations[4] From 1964 to 1966 he was professor at Beijing Foreign Affairs College. In 1967, during the Cultural Revolution, he had disappeared, but he reappeared as a senior researcher.[5]