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Translation of the Peking Gazette for 1883. First edition. The mouthpiece of the Qing court, the Peking Gazette was the "most important public source of information about the workings of the late Qing state... Through the gazette 'one is able to feel the pulse of the whole empire,' wrote Jehu Lewis Shuck, the first Baptist missionary to China" (Harris, p. 3).From the Macartney embassy onwards, foreign missionaries, merchants, and diplomats relied on the Gazette as an indispensable source of information. Translations of articles regularly appeared in English-language newspapers, journals, and reports, as well as in annual compilation volumes. The wide-ranging index for this instalment includes references, for example, to opium dens in the Forbidden City, silk and porcelain manufacturing, extortion, riots, and river management.

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