Lü Haihuan

Lü Haihuan (吕海寰, Lǚ Hǎihuán) was a Qing official who dealt with the Shanghai settlements first as daotai and later as a treaty commissioner. He became Shanghai daotai in October 1896, spent 1897 to 1901 as minister to Germany and the Netherlands, and returned to Shanghai as the commissioner in charge of commercial treaty negotiations.

In that role he asked the Qing government to revise the Mixed Court regulations so that China could regain judicial authority in the settlements. In July 1905 he privately warned the Jiangsu governor that a meeting at Zhang Garden, publicly against French and Russian demands, was aimed at causing trouble, and named Cai Yuanpei (蔡元培) among its leaders. The Subao case followed shortly after, the gazetteer notes. In 1907 he became president of the Board of Foreign Affairs. He wrote a chronological autobiography, which survives.