Commissioner Lin with an imperial commission from the Daoguang Emperor to halt the illegal importation of opium by the British, destroying thousands of chests of opium in 1839. Lin Zexu, 1785 – 1850, courtesy name Yuanfu. Chinese scholar-official of the Qing dynasty. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.

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