Qing Dynasty
chinese
['dhivehi', 'french creole', 'malay', 'nauruan', 'ottoman turkish', 'greek islands', 'galician', 'hindustani', 'kiribati', 'old welsh', 'hangul', 'maldivian', 'romanian', 'montenegrin', 'scottish', 'greek peninsula', 'bahasa melayu', 'luxembourgeois', 'khasi', 'swedish', 'chuvash republic', 'bengali', 'swazi', 'hispanic', 'egyptian', 'aranese', 'skolt sami', 'pomo', 'urdu', 'slovak', 'marshallese', 'kannada', 'inuktitut', 'chamoru', 'europe', 'seychellois', 'russian', 'telugu', 'european portuguese', 'georgian', 'latvian', 'catalan', 'northern sami', 'tigrinya', 'serbian latin', 'malagasy', 'inuinnaqtun', 'old ruthenian', 'old russian', 'italians', 'telegu', 'ossetic', 'francophonie', 'ingush', 'siswati', 'albanian', 'icelandic', 'lowland scots', 'common market', 'venetian', 'somali', 'sesotho', 'church slavonic', 'aceh', 'xhosa', 'hungarian', 'pitkern', 'lithuanian', 'european union', 'kichwa', 'kazakh', 'west frisian', 'tibetan', 'slovakian', 'medieval greek', 'chichewa', 'esperantists', 'old english', 'croat', 'zulu', 'afrikaans', 'khmer', 'buryat', 'norman', 'old east slavic', 'malayalam music', 'hawaiian', 'abkhazian', 'malta', 'tamil', 'tetum', 'national', 'kachin state', 'marathi', 'latin', 'uzbekistan', 'tok pisin', 'karelia', 'assyrian']
James Flint (merchant)
James Flint (?1720-?) was an 18th-century British merchant and diplomat employed by the East India Company and noted for his role in precipitating the Canton System of Chinese trade with the West. One of the first English people to learn the Chinese language, Flint broke Qing Dynasty court protocol through a direct complaint to the Qianlong Emperor, which led to three years of detention in the Portuguese colony of Macau. In later life, he was jointly responsible for the introduction of the soybean to North America.