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Qian Long’s (Ch’ien lung) Letter to King George III

In my readings for my Chinese Law class, there is an excerpt of the letter written by the Chinese Emperor, Qian Long, dated 1793, to the British King George III as an answer to the latter’s request to post a representative to the imperial court and to expend the trade with China which until then, could […]