Record revealed
Letters from the curator of St Vincent Botanic Gardens
Discover how plants travelled across the British Empire in the 19th century and the effect this has on our natural environment, and eating habits, today.
Series
Kwangtung Provincial Archives: Documents of the Chinese Administration in Kwangtung
Catalogue reference: FO 931
What's it about?
FO 931
This series contains documents of the Chinese administration in Kwangtung. They touch on the opium trade and opium wars, central and local administration, foreign relations, internal rebellions and the Arrow War.
Full description and record details
-
Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- FO 931
-
Title (The name of the record)
- Kwangtung Provincial Archives: Documents of the Chinese Administration in Kwangtung
-
Date (When the record was created)
- 1765-1857
-
Description (What the record is about)
-
This series contains documents of the Chinese administration in Kwangtung. They touch on the opium trade and opium wars, central and local administration, foreign relations, internal rebellions and the Arrow War.
-
Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
-
Arrangement
Abbreviations used in the catalogue of this series:
- arr. - arrived, referring to the arrival of documents, always followed by a date
- C-in-C - Commander-in-Chief. Unless otherwise stated, it refers to those in Kwangtung.
- dis. - dispatched
- dr. - draft
- encl. - enclosure
- f. (ff.) - folio(s)-the Chinese folded 'page.' Most of the manuscripts were originally folded in a zigzag fashion from a long sheet of paper to make them physically manageable. They were not bound. The folio here refers to the two sides of a manuscript created by a single fold. It does not refer to the unused part of the manuscript which usually comes at the end.
- G. - the governor of a province-unless otherwise stated, it refers to the governor of Kwangtung.
- G.G. - governor-general-unless stated otherwise, it refers to the governor-general of Liang-Kwang.
- HF - the Hsien-feng reign, 1851-1861
- Imp. Com. - Imperial Commissioner
- n.d. - no date
- TK - the Tao-kuang reign, 1820-1850
- Tls. - taels
- / (in dates) - ex. 1839/1840 means 1839 or 1840
- - (in dates) - ex. 1839-1840 means a two-year period from 1839 through 1840
-
Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
-
Former reference (Former reference given to the record)
- FO 682
-
Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
-
Language (The language of the record)
- Chinese
-
Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1954 papers
-
Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
-
Custodial history (Describes where and how the record has been held from creation to transfer to The National Archives)
- These records were captured by the British in the second (1857) Anglo-Chinese (the Arrow) War.
-
Publication note(s) (A note of publications related to the record)
- D Pong, Harvard University Press 1975, A Critical Guide to the Kwangtung Provincial Archives
-
Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C8230/
Catalogue hierarchy
Over 27 million records
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
689,247 records
Within the department: FO
Records created or inherited by the Foreign Office
You are currently looking at the series: FO 931
Kwangtung Provincial Archives: Documents of the Chinese Administration in Kwangtung
You may be interested in
-
-
Focus on
The corsair state of Rabat-Salé
On the Atlantic coast of Morocco are two cities that became one of the most substantial Islamic ports of the 17th Century. -
Focus on
Blood in the Wear: The Sunderland Sailors' Strike and the North Sands Massacre of August 1825
Records of a coroner’s inquest on the body of the sailor Thomas Aird reveal details of a little-known seamen’s strike that was brutally suppressed.
Related records
Records that share similar topics with this record.