ST NEOTS.- An important collection of Asian Art owned by Tseng En Po, who led his life in the centre of enormous world events as a top TV newsman, will be sold by auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull on Monday the 30th November 2015 at Crosshall Manor, St Neots, Cambridgeshire. The Tseng collection of 22 lots has estimates of £15,700- £24,400 and will be on view to the public ;at Crosshall Manor form Friday the 27th November 2015.

The collection includes a Feng Hanshu Landscape valued between £3,000 and 5,000 inscribed by He Shuxiang (politician of the Kuomintang party), with one seal of the painter, two seals of the calligrapher, dated layue (last year of the Chinese lunar calendar), yimao year (1975), dedicated to Tseng En Po to congratulate him on moving into a new home

Eddie Tseng En Po reported events to the world with only a typewriter and basic telephone system. His notebooks attest to those world changing times, before the days of the Internet.

Born on 10 November 1915 in Canton, Tseng En Po studied journalism at Yenjing University in Peking. In 1941, whilst working for Central News Agency in Hong Kong, he escaped the Japanese invasion and walked to Chungking to join Chinese forces. From there he reported on the Sino-Japanese war and became associated with the future President of China Chang Kai Shek and Madame Chang.

During the Pacific War, Mr Tseng witnessed the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing on the first reconnaissance plane into the area, and was the first reporter to broadcast the Japanese surrender from the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

Mr Tseng was based in occupied Japan after the end of the Second Word War and covered the Korean War before moving first to Taiwan in 1951, and then to London in 1958 to become CNA Bureau Chief Europe. In this post, he became associated with European and American political elite and Taiwan diplomatic corps. Mr Tseng and his wife Betty Fang Yin were genial hosts, entertaining their guests with great food cooked by Betty, who was much the 'hostess with the mostess'. It was during this time that Mr Tseng met and befriended a range of prominent Chinese artists, who presented him with many of the artworks offered in this sale.

Mr Tseng moved to Hong Kong in 1965 to become Far East Bureau Chief of CNA, progressing to Editor of the Hong Kong Times during the Chinese Cultural revolution in China and Red Guard activity in Hong Kong and leading up to the Hong Kong handover to China. Twice President of the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents Club, Mr Tseng undertook diplomatic roles on behalf of the Republic of China government in Taiwan in their relationship with the American and British governments.

Tseng En Po died after a struggle with cancer in 1989. He was given a near state funeral in Hong Kong and a second one, with military honours, in Taiwan.