Ding Richang (1823— 1882) was born in Fengshun County, Guangdong Province. He has served as a Confucian tutor in Qiongzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province, a rank ambassador in Wan 'an, Luling County, an ambassador in Su Songtai, an ambassador in Huaibei, an ambassador in Jiangsu Province, a governor in Jiangsu, a governor in Fuzhou, a governor in Fujian, and a minister in charge of coastal defense. He was a man of the hour in the Westernization Movement in modern China and one of the four great bibliophiles in modern China.