Along with the beginning of modern China s sending envoys and establishing consulates and the super powers exploitation getting increasingly deeper and heavier,a concern with how to select and appoint diplomats or what qualification and knowledge structure a diplomat should possess came to attract more and more attention from the government and people.

In the history of the cultural exchange between China and Western countries,the spreading of Tang poems into the English world is a big event,for which a group of missionaries and diplomats give a beginning,thus laying a good foundation.