黄遵宪是我国19世纪下半叶卓越的爱国主义诗人、资产阶级改良主义的政治活动家,也是一位“明于识、练于事、忠于国”的杰出外交家。他在担任驻日本、美国及新加坡的外交官期间,为保护海外华侨的正当权益,在力所能及的范围内做了许多有益的工作。司徒美堂称赞他“是中国历来驻美外交官中唯一能做保护华侨工作之人”。 Huang Zunxian is a remarkable patriotic poet and bourgeois reformist political activist in the second half of the 19th century in our country. He is also an outstanding diplomat who understands, practices and loyalty to the country. During his tenure as a diplomat based in Japan, the United States and Singapore, he did a great deal to the best of his ability to protect the legitimate rights and interests of overseas Chinese. Stuart Meitou praised him “as the only Chinese diplomat in the United States who can do the work of protecting overseas Chinese people.”