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Experts in the Jardine-Matheson Network
12019-11-18T17:23:01-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f352Experts in the Jardine-Matheson Networkplain2020-07-18T13:11:51-04:00Peter ThillyPeter Thilly31b16d536038527b575c94bfc34e976c8406bf42The opium trade in Guangdong province was conducted through a method known as the “Lintin system.” Because importing opium was illegal, British merchants were discouraged from bringing it all the way up-river to Guangzhou (Canton). Instead, the coalition of British and Chinese opium merchants in Guangdong arranged a simple and effective opium smuggling mechanism for transactions between local firms and British importers. The opium trade itself took place offshore, at the small island of Lintin (Lingding) near present-day Hong Kong, where British firms permanently anchored large "receiving ships," which operated as floating warehouses. Chinese buyers would go to money-lending shops on streets like Lianxing Jie in Guangzhou to make payment, then take a receipt out to a foreign receiving ship anchored near Lintin to receive their opium. For an extra charge, they could arrange armed escort. Buyers had come from every coastal province, and local officials singled out southern Fujianese brokers in their reports as having a large stake in the trade.
SOURCE: Guangdong Governor Li Hongbin describes the system in detail in a memorial from January 1832: First Historical Archives of China, Gongzhong hanwen zhupi zouzhe, 04–01–01–0732–021, DG 11.12.14.
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12019-11-18T17:23:01-05:00Kate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5fThe Opium BoomKate McDonald1Understanding the expansion of the opium trade leading up to 1832image_header34762019-11-18T17:23:01-05:001800-1832Peter ThillyKate McDonald306bb1134bc892ab2ada669bed7aecb100ef7d5f
