Yang Yü (diplomat) explained

Yang Yü (diplomat) should not be confused with Yang Su (diplomat).

Yang Yü (; 1840 – 17 February 1902) was a diplomat of the Qing dynasty. He was the Chinese ambassador to the United States from 1893-1896 and ambassador to Russia (1896-?).

Yang signed the Gresham-Yang Treaty in 1894 with Walter Q. Gresham, the US Secretary of State.^{[1] [2]} It is a crucial extension of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 and the direct cause for the 1905 Chinese boycott.

Notes and References

1. Paulsen, George E. (1968). The Gresham-Yang Treaty. Pacific Historical Review, 37(3), 281–297.
2. 梁建. 杨儒解决美国排华问题的实践与构想述论 [Yang Yü's tackling of US Anti-Chinese policy]. 西南交通大学学报(社会科学版), 2011,12(2):82-86.