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A Chinese negotiator visits Hong Kong to exchange the signed Treaty of Nanking; http://sites.asiasociety.org/chinawealthpower/the-first-opium-war/
Assignments:
- What were the main factors that contributed to the start of the Opium Wars?
- What were some of the lasting legacies of the Opium Wars and how are they seen today?
Additional Readings:
- Arthur Waley, The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes (1958)
- Dennis Abrams, The Treaty of Nanking (2011)
- Dong Wang, China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History (2005)
- Granville Gower Loch, The Closing Events of the Campaign in China: The Operations in the Yang-Tze-Kiang, and the Treaty of Nanking (2013)
- Hsin-Pao Chang, Commissioner Lin and the Opium War (1970)
- John King Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast; the Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854 (1953)
- Julia Lovell, The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China (2011)
- June M. Grasso, Jay Corrin, & Michael Kort, Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to World Power (2004)
- Robert A. Bickers, The scramble for China: foreign devils in the Qing empire, 1800-1914 (2011)
- W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello, Opium Wars: The Addiction of One Empire and the Corruption of Another (2002)