Portfolio chinensis
Subtitle: or, A collection of authentic Chinese state papers illustrative of the history of the present position of affairs in China.
By: With a translation, notes and introduction. By J. Lewis Shuck.
Publisher: Printed for the translator
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Macao, China
Language: eng; chi
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Opium trade.; China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842.
Table of contents: title: Preface.; title: Introduction.; title: Paper relating to the internal policy of the country.; title: Proclamation of Lew, chief magistrate of Nanhae, relating to an opium depôt.; title: The first proclamation of the high commissioner to foreigners demanding the surrender of their opium.; title: Proclamation by the commissioner to foreigners detailing four reasons why they should at once surrender their opium.; title: Proclamation containing the imperial decree declaring the English trade for ever at an end.; title: Letter from the high commissioner to the queen of Great Britiain [!]; title: 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.; title: Notes.; title: Appendix. Offering rewards for the arrest and murder of the English.