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Given below is an extract of a strong worded letter written to Queen Victoria criticizing the trade in opium. You are to name the person who wrote that letter.

We find your country is sixty or seventy thousand [three li make one mile, ordinarily] from China. Yet there are barbarian ships that strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians. That is to say, the great profit made by barbarians is all taken from the rightful share of China........ Let us ask, where is your conscience? I have heard that the smoking of opium is very strictly forbidden by your country; that is because the harm caused by opium is clearly understood. Since it is not permitted to do harm to your own country, then even less should you let it be passed on to the harm of other countries - how much less to China!?

A)  Ssuyu Teng      

B)  Lin Ze-xu

C)  Cai Lun           

D)  John Fairbank

E)  None of these