# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lin-tse-hsu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:15:01.569Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lin-tse-hsu"
name: "Lin Tse-hsu"
slug: "lin-tse-hsu"
description: "Lin Zexu, Grand Guardian of the Heir Apparent, courtesy name Yuanfu, was a Chinese political philosopher and politician. He was a head of state (Viceroy), Governor General, scholar-official, and under the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing dynasty best known for his role in the First Opium War of 1839–42. He was from Fuzhou, Fujian Province. Lin's forceful opposition to the opium trade was a primary catalyst for the First Opium War. He is praised for his constant position on the \"moral high ground\" in his fight, but he is also blamed for a rigid approach which failed to account for the domestic and international complexities of the problem. The Emperor endorsed the hardline policies and anti-drugs movement advocated by Lin, but placed all responsibility for the resulting disastrous Opium War onto Lin. However, Lin's efforts against the opium trade was appreciated by drug prohibition activists and revered as a culture hero in Chinese culture, symbolizes drug abuse resistance in China."
tagline: "Chinese scholar and politician (1785-1850)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_of_Lin_Zexu.jpeg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1785-08-30"
deathDate: "1850-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump