In the winter of 1928, the 13th Dalai Lama sent Mkhan-po Lobsang Pasang Lama, who was stationed at Wutai Mountain as the plenipotentiary to Nanjing, to meet Chiang Kai-shek, Chairman of the National Government. Lobsang Pasang was concerned that his Chinese would not be good enough to fully express what he wanted to say, so Liu Manqing was recommended as an interpreter.

Source：The Female Envoy to Tibet During the Republic of China Period: A Biography of Liu Manqing. 21st Century Press, 2015