He is best known for negotiating the Convention of Chuanbi on behalf of the Qing government with the British during the First Opium War of 1839–42.
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[Ch'i-shan], A district in Shaanxi province, China, just west of Fufeng. The Zhou people are said to have settled at Qishan several generations before they ...
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A century has elapsed since the British occupation of Hong- kong, but there is still a general belief among Western historians.