HIST 1F90 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: The Chinese Repository, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams
18 May 2015
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The chinese repository was a journal created by elijah coleman bridgman and samuel. Wells williams, missionaries from the united states that lived in china. Bridgeman was one of the first missionaries to live in china, and he wanted to publish a journal that accurately represented china. It was created to inform protestant missionaries about the culture and events occurring in china to encourage them to come. 1the first article of this section of the chinese. Repository is a letter to the queen of england written by the high imperial commissioner lin, and his colleagues. This document was originally titled ni yu yingjili guowang xi which was later translated to the chinese repository (he liu 2004, 229)2. Lin was instructed by the qing emperor to end the opium trade with britain, and he did so by ordering the destruction of any.
