Lin Zexu (30 August 1785 – 22 November 1850), courtesy name Yuanfu, was a Chinese political philosopher and politician. He was a head of state (Viceroy)...
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tax opium, appointed Viceroy of Huguang Lin Zexu to go to Guangzhou to halt the opium trade completely. Lin wrote an open letter to Queen Victoria appealing...
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016 t) of illegal opium seized from British traders under the aegis of Lin Zexu, an Imperial Commissioner of Qing China. Conducted on the banks of the...
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writer, Nobel prize nominee Lin Zexu, nineteenth-century governor-general, imperial commissioner, poet, scholar, diplomat Alfred Lin, Taiwanese-born American...
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The Lin Zexu Memorial Museum of Macau (Chinese: 澳門林則徐紀念館; Portuguese: Museu Lin Zexu de Macau) is a museum in Nossa Senhora de Fátima, Macau, China about...
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seriously worried Chinese officials, which appointed Lin Zexu to fight the illegal traffic. The actions of Zexu offended the British, which imposed a war, the...
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Empire, from the perspectives of key figures such as the Chinese viceroy Lin Zexu and the British naval diplomat Charles Elliot. Unlike other films of the...
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Marco Polo. The Ryukyu Kingdom established an embassy in Fuzhou. In 1839, Lin Zexu, who himself was a Fuzhou native, was appointed by the Daoguang Emperor...
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The film shows opium smugglers in the Qing Dynasty, China, with Officer Lin Zexu and Chinese martial arts master and folk hero of Cantonese ethnicity Wong...
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reconstituted as Jardine, Matheson & Co. in 1832. After Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu destroyed 20,000 cases of opium seized from British traders in 1839, Jardine...
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and 1830s, which were carried out by Lin Zexu, whom he appointed as an Imperial Commissioner to Canton. Lin Zexu's efforts to halt the spread of opium...
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name:Humen Lin Zexu Memorial Hall; simplified Chinese: 虎门林则徐纪念馆; traditional Chinese: 虎門林則徐紀念館)is a Chinese museum dedicated to the Lin Zexu and the Opium...
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silver, the Daoguang Emperor charged Governor General Lin Zexu with ending the trade. In 1839, Lin published in Canton an open letter to Queen Victoria...
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over a period of almost half a century. In 1840 Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu, impressed by the power of British warships in the initial battles of the...
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technology. Scholar official Wei Yuan, writing on behalf of Commissioner Lin Zexu at the close of the First Opium War, expressed advocacy for production...
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residents include: Zhang Jing Lin Zexu Chen Baochen Zheng Xiaoxu Shen Baozhen Sa Zhenbing Yan Fu Lin Shu Bing Xin Lu Yin Lin Huiyin Lin Juemin Wang Zhu Shu Chun...
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teaching", a syncretic sect which was founded during the Ming dynasty by Lin Zhao'en, wherein Confucian, Taoist, and Buddhist beliefs are combined according...
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the contempt the British have for the Chinese and, after meeting with Lin Zexu, the official sent to stop the opium trade, and witnessing an opium den...
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1960s notably in biographical films playing historical figures of Nie Er, Lin Zexu (both directed by Zheng Junli) and Li Shizhen. Zhao joined Chinese Communist...
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the Chinese by Persian then Islamic traders over many centuries. Viceroy Lin Zexu took on the task of suppressing the opium trade. In March 1839, he became...
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and subsequently worked in the secretariat of several statesmen such as Lin Zexu. Wei was deeply concerned with the crisis facing China in the early 19th...
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Nanking was signed between Sir Robert Peel on behalf of Queen Victoria and Lin Zexu on behalf of Emperor Xuanzong and has ceded Hong Kong to the United Kingdom...
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travelled to Lin Zexu's hometown of Fuzhou to experience life there. Apart from that, every morning when he woke up, he would imagine himself as Lin Zexu and try...
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110. doi:10.1515/9780691200811-008. ISBN 9780691200811. S2CID 242423709. Lin, Derek (29 December 2016), "The "Ancient Child" Fallacy", Taoism.net Ames...
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into China (Chinese law forbade the importation and sale of opium). When Lin Zexu seized this privately owned opium and ordered the destruction of opium...
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that opium smoking was causing to his subjects, ordered Lin Zexu to end the opium trade. Lin confiscated the stocks of opium without compensation in 1839...
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century China grew most of the opium it used. A Chinese commissioner, Lin Zexu, voiced to Queen Victoria the Qing state's opposition to the opium trade...
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calligraphy by the great Yu Youren (1879–1964). A statue of Lin Zexu, also known as Commissioner Lin, a Foochowese Chinese official who opposed the opium trade...
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Japanese-controlled Zhonglian Productions ("United China") brand. Telling the story of Lin Zexu and the First Opium War, the film was designed by producers Kawakita Nagamasa...
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based on initial translations ordered by Special Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu. The Treatise is regarded as the first significant Chinese work on the...
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