Events from the year 1843 in China.
Incumbents
- Daoguang Emperor (23rd year)
Viceroys
- Viceroy of Zhili — Nergingge[citation needed]
- 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[1]
- the first Treaty Ports were opened[2]
- Anglican diocese of Shanghai established after Rev. William Jones Boone appointed Bishop in Shanghai[citation needed]
- 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[3]
References
- ^ *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.
- ^ Wood, Francis. No Dogs and Not Many Chinese: Treaty Port Life in China, 1843-1943.
- ^ * 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.