Place
Guangzhou (Canton)
Port city on the Pearl River where foreign merchants traded with China.
- Also known as
- Canton
- Wikidata
- Q16572
Connections 2
involved in
- British embassy to the Qianlong court, 1793 foreign merchant firms were permitted there Primary record 1
location of
- Seizure of opium at Canton, 1839 Primary record 234
Proof 4 sources
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Emperor Qianlong, letter to George III, 1793, Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University, 1793.
Primary record
But as the tea, silk and porcelain which the Celestial Empire produces, are absolute necessities to European nations and to yourselves, we have permitted, as a signal mark of favour, that foreign hongs [merchant firms] should be established at Canton
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Commissioner Lin, letter to Queen Victoria, 1839 (English translation of 1840), Internet Modern History Sourcebook, Fordham University, 1839.
Primary record
especially dispatched me, the commissioner, to Canton, that in conjunction with the viceroy and lieut.-governor of the province, means might be taken for its suppression
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Treaty of Nanjing (Nanking), 1842, USC US-China Institute, 29 Aug 1842.
Primary record
the value of Opium which was delivered up at Canton in the month of March 1839, as a Ransom for the lives of Her Britannic Majesty's Superintendent and Subjects, who had been imprisoned and threatened with death by the Chinese High Officers.
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War with China, adjourned debate (Hansard, House of Commons, 9 April 1840), UK Parliament (Historic Hansard), 9 Apr 1840.
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under the greatest durance, and under the threat of their being suffered to die by starvation
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