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Events from the year 1843 in China.

Incumbents

• Daoguang Emperor (23rd year)

Viceroys

• Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge
• Viceroy of Min-Zhe —
• Viceroy of Huguang —
• Viceroy of Shaan-Gan — ?
• Viceroy of Liangguang —
• Viceroy of Yun-Gui —
• Viceroy of Sichuan —
• Viceroy of Liangjiang —

Events

• October 8 — Treaty of the Bogue signed between China and the United Kingdom, concluded in October 1843 to supplement the previous Treaty of Nanking
• the first Treaty Ports were opened
• Anglican diocese of Shanghai established after Rev. William Jones Boone appointed Bishop in Shanghai
• Publication of the Illustrated Treatise on the Maritime Kingdoms, or Haiguo Tuzhi, a gazetteer compiled by scholar-official Wei Yuan and others, based on initial translations ordered by Special Imperial Commissioner Lin Zexu. The Treatise is regarded as the first significant Chinese work on the West

References

1. *Fairbank, John King. Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854. 2 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1953.
2. Wood, Francis. No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943.
3. * Hao, Yen-p'ing; Wang, Erh-min (1980). Fairbank, John King; Twitchett, Denis Crispin (eds.). The Cambridge History of China: Late Ch'ing 1800-1911. Cambridge History of China. Vol. 11. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521-2202-93.

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