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by Stephen R. Platt


  Zheng Yi, 105

  Zhili province, 216, 336, 348

  ILLUSTRATION CREDITS

  Section one

  A Canton street scene (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  View of the Hongs at Canton, 1825–35, ca. 1835, Lamqua, attribution (China and Chinese, active dates 1825–1860) (Peabody Essex Museum, Museum purchase from the Estate of John Heard, 1931. © Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Photography by Mark Sexton and Jeffrey R. Dykes)

  The Canton factories (Wellcome Library, London)

  Macartney welcomed into China (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  The Great Wall of China (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  The emperor arriving at his tent (Courtesy of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

  A satirical cartoon of Macartney kneeling before Qianlong (Courtesy of The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University)

  Emperor Qianlong in Old Age (1711–1799), Chinese School, eighteenth century (Private Collection / Bridgeman Images)

  The house and gardens of a wealthy Chinese merchant in Canton (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  The Canton factories (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  A Chinese painting of British sailors on trial (Courtesy of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

  Thomas Manning (Courtesy of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland)

  “Pacifying the South China Sea”, section of an 18m long scroll documenting the suppression of piracy in the South China Sea in the mid-Jiaqing period (1796–1820), Hong Kong Maritime Museum, anon., early nineteenth century (Pictures from History / Bridgeman Images)

  The East India House (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  Robert Morrison and his assistants (Courtesy of the Yale Divinity School Library)

  The anchorage at Tongzhou (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  Section two

  A gate in the Beijing city wall (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  The wreck of the Alceste (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  The anchorage at Whampoa (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  The East India Company’s opium stacking room at Patna, India (Wellcome Library, London)

  Houqua (Image copyright © The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Image source: Art Resource, NY)

  John Murray Forbes (Courtesy of the Forbes House Museum, Milton, MA)

  Portrait of Harriet Low, 1833 by George Chinnery (English, 1774–1852) (Peabody Essex Museum, museum purchase with partial funds donated by The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund and Joan Vaughan Ingraham, 2001. © Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. Photography by Mark Sexton)

  Palmerston (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  Karl Gutzlaff (iStock.com / GeorgiosArt)

  The opium poppy (Wellcome Library, London)

  Opium smokers (Wellcome Library, London)

  A fleet of opium clippers on the Ganges River in India (Wellcome Library, London)

  The Imogene and Andromache forcing the passage of the Tiger’s Mouth (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  An opium den (Wellcome Library, London)

  Lin Zexu (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art)

  George Staunton (Wellcome Library, London)

  Commissioner Lin Zexu (1785–1850) Overseeing the Destruction of Opium at Canton in 1839 (Pictures from History / Bridgeman Images)

  The harbor at Hong Kong in 1843 (Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection)

  British forces capturing the Tiger’s Mouth forts (Courtesy of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University)

  Statue of Lin Zexu in New York City (iStock.com / SeanPavonePhoto)

  A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Stephen R. Platt is a professor of Chinese history at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His last book, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, was a Washington Post Notable Book, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and won the Cundill History Prize. Platt lives with his wife and children in Northampton, Massachusetts.

  A Canton street scene.

  The foreign factories at Canton and the square in front of them.

  The Canton factories in the late eighteenth century.

  A hopeful image of Macartney being welcomed into the wonders of China.

  The Great Wall of China.

  The emperor arriving at his tent for the audience. Macartney in his fancy suit, along with Staunton in his Oxford regalia and Staunton’s son are at lower right.

  A satirical cartoon of Macartney kneeling before Qianlong and presenting his “gifts”.

  Qianlong in his old age.

  The house and gardens of a wealthy Chinese merchant in Canton.

  The Canton factories.

  A Chinese painting of British sailors on trial in a Chinese court of law. George Staunton is furthest left of the foreigners in white shirts and dark coats on the left-hand side.

  Thomas Manning

  An optimistic rendering of imperial forces “pacifying” the pirates in 1809.

  The East India House.

  Robert Morrison and his assistants.

  The anchorage at Tongzhou.

  A gate in the Beijing city wall.

  The wreck of the Alceste.

  The anchorage at Whampoa, facing upriver toward Canton.

  The East India Company’s opium stacking room at Patna, India.

  Houqua

  John Murray Forbes

  Harriet Low

  Palmerston

  Karl Gutzlaff in his Chinese disguise.

  The opium poppy.

  Opium smokers.

  A fleet of opium clippers on the Ganges River in India.

  The Imogene and Andromache forcing the passage of the Tiger’s Mouth.

  An opium den.

  Lin Zexu

  George Staunton in 1839.

  Lin Zexu destroying the opium.

  The harbor at Hong Kong in 1843, a year after the Opium War.

  British forces capturing the Tiger’s Mouth forts.

  Statue of Lin Zexu in New York City.

 

 

 


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