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Portfolio chinensis: or, A collection of authentic Chinese state papers illustrative of the history of the present position of affairs in China
Title
Portfolio chinensis: or, A collection of authentic Chinese state papers illustrative of the history of the present position of affairs in China. With a translation, notes and introduction. By J. Lewis Shuck.
Published
Macao, China : Printed for the translator, 1840.
Physical Description
xvi, 191 p. 23 cm.
Local Notes
SML,Y Bj17 22f: Photocopy. New Haven, Yale University Library, 1975. 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English; Chinese
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
Paper relating to the internal policy of the country.
Proclamation of Lew, chief magistrate of Nanhae, relating to an opium depôt.
The first proclamation of the high commissioner to foreigners demanding the surrender of their opium.
Proclamation by the commissioner to foreigners detailing four reasons why they should at once surrender their opium.
Proclamation containing the imperial decree declaring the English trade for ever at an end.
Letter from the high commissioner to the queen of Great Britiain [!]
Memorial of Tsang Wangyen to the emperor, recommending plans for the entire suppression of all foreign intercourse, and the extermination of foreigners. With a supplement relating to the Portuguese of Macao.
Notes.
Appendix. Offering rewards for the arrest and murder of the English.
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