FUJIAN RÉN & LIN ZE XU: THE FUZHOU HERO WHO DESTROYED OPIUM

The following sections are included:

• The Opium War — and Lin Ze Xu

• Fujian: Building on Fortune

• Lin Ze Xu: The Fuzhou Hero Who Destroyed Opium

  • Beginnings

  • Imperial commissioner Lin & the Opium War

  • Exile in Xinjiang

  • Appointed to suppress the taiping rebels

• The Language and Culture of Fujian Rén

  • Fujian Huà: A misnomer

  • The minnan dialect group and its regions

  • Migrant cultural assimilations in language and music

• Gu Hong Ming: An Unusual Chinese Scholar Who Translated Confucius' Four Books into English

• Liu Bu Chan: The Patriotic Qing Dynasty Admiral

• Lin Jue Min: The Martyr of the Huanghuagang Uprising from Fuzhou

• Yan Fu: The Anti-Monarchy Writer from Fuzhou

• Chen Bo Da and Hui'an: The Stone City

• Anping Bridge & Nan'an: The Birthplace of Zheng Cheng Gong

• Lai Chang Xing, China's Biggest Smuggler

  • Beginnings

  • Lai: A smuggler-philanthropist in Hong Kong

  • Lai's business in his hometown

  • Investigation, arrest and escape

• Fuzhou: The Dialect and the People of East Fujian

• Lin Sen: China's First President

• Bing Xin: A Famous Female Author