Title: Portfolio chinensis, or, A collection of authentic Chinese state papers illustrative of the history of the present position of affairs in China :
Authors: Shuck, J. Lewis; Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection.; Boston Athenaeum.
Date: 1840
Publisher: Printed for the translator,
Physical description: xvi, 191 p. 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: D
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.
Notes: Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 31456.
Subject headings (LCSH): China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842.; Noncitizens--China; Opium trade--China.; Opium trade.