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Opium Wars
Further Reading
Robert Bickers, Ritual & diplomacy: the Macartney mission to China, 1792-1794 (London: Wellsweep/British Association for Chinese Studies, 1992)
W. E. Cheong, Mandarins and Merchants: Jardine Matheson, & Co. (London, Curzon Press, 1979)
Robert Blake, Jardine Matheson: Traders of the Far East (Diane Pub. 1999)
Keith McMahon, The Fall of the God of Money: Opium Smoking in nineteenth-century China (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002)
Arthur Waley, The Opium War through Chinese Eyes (London: Allen and Unwin, 1958)
James M. Polachek, The Inner Opium War (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Council on East Asia Studies, 1992)
Frank Dikotter, Lars Laamann and Xun Zhou, Narcotic culture: the social history of drugs in China (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004)
Hunt Janin, The India-China opium trade in the 19th century (Jefferson: McFarland, 1999)
Marin Booth,Opium: A history (London: Pocket Books, 1997)
Yangwen Zheng, The Social Life of Opium in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Carl A. Trocki, Opium, Empire and the Global Political Economy: A Study of the Asian Opium Trade, 1750-1950 (London: Routledge, 1999)
Peter Ward Fay, The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar (New York: Norton, 1976)
Michael Greenberg, British trade and the opening of China 1800-42 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951)
Brian Inglis, The Opium War (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976)
Tan Chung, China and the brave new world: A study of the origins of the Opium War (1840-42) (Durham, N.C : Carolina Academic Press, 1978)
Frederic E. Wakeman, Strangers at the Gate: Social disorder in south China, 1839-1861 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997)
