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|title= Lord Tang
|title= Lord Tang
|photo= Tang.jpg|Lord Tang, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]
|photo=Tang.jpg|Lord Tang, as drawn by [[User:Knmatt|Matt Smith]]|
|name= Lord Tang
|age= Unknown
|race= [[:Category:Human characters|Human]]
|occupation= Head of the Tang family
|appearance= Auriental
|residence= Agatean Empire
|death= Unknown
|relatives= Unknown
|parents= Unknown
|children= Unknown
|marital status= Unknown
 
|books= {{IT}}
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Revision as of 18:24, 22 November 2019

Lord Tang
Lord Tang, as drawn by Matt Smith
Name Lord Tang
Race Human
Age Unknown
Occupation Head of the Tang family
Physical appearance Auriental
Residence Agatean Empire
Death Unknown
Parents Unknown
Relatives Unknown
Children Unknown
Marital Status Unknown
Appearances
Books Interesting Times
Cameos


One of the five noble families in the Agatean Empire who periodically succeed in getting a member enthroned as Emperor.

Lord Tang is somewhat transparent and depressingly dim, allowing himself to be manipulated and set up as a fall-guy by Lord Hong. The other lords are relieved by this, as when the Emperor is looking for somebody to blame, as he soon will do, his eye is sure to alight on Tang first, thus saving their persons from that unspecified thing they do with a wire waistcoat and a cheesegrater.

The others are the Sungs, Fangs, Hongs and the McSweeneys.

Annotation

George McDonald Fraser provides a very specified account which will remove all doubt as to what the wire waistcoat and the cheesegrater are for, in the novel Flashman and the Dragon. In which the adult bully and poltroon from Tom Brown's Schooldays narrowly evades such a fate himself, at the hands of an insane Chinese mandarin...

Tang was also the name of the Chinese Imperial Dynasty that proceeded the Sung. This is probably not happenstance.