The Chinese Opium Wars (original) (raw)

History of the Wars

• England and China: The Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Causes of the So-Called Chinese Opium Wars (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
• The Principle of Extraterritoriality and the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• The Nemesis — Great Britain's Secret Weapon in the Opium Wars, 1839-60
• News of the Conflict Between British and Chinese Imperial Forces at Nankin, Shang-hai, and Canton
• Canton — Macao — Hong-Kong
• [Parliament acknowledges the leaders of Britain’s victorious forces in the Opium War.]
• Commissioner Lin Ze-xu's Letter to Queen Victoria
• China's Putative Counter-Blockade: Tea and Rhubarb
• Henry Morley's Our Phantom Ship: China (Household Words, 1851)
• Household Words on China

Opium, Its Medicinal Uses, and Addiction

• The Medicinal Use of Opium in England
• Arab Traders Introduce Opium to China and India
• The Medical "Discovery" of Addiction
• Opium & Infant Mortality

Illustrations (from the 1842 and 1843 Illustrated London News unless otherwise noted)

• Chinese Gun with Bamboo Sight
• A Chinese Cage [torturing an English woman]
• The Nemesis Steamer Destroying Chinese War Junks, in Canton River
• The American Minister Starting for Pekin [Beijing] (Harper's Weekly, 1859)
• The Voyage on the River (Harper's Weekly, 1859)
• Specimen of Chinese Country Carts (Harper's Weekly, 1859)
• Mr. Ward and His Suite at the Gate of Pekin (Harper's Weekly, 1859)
• Chinese Fort
• Chinese Soldier
• Chinese Dollars
• Chinese Mandarins
• Chinese Tribute Money Entering the Mint
• Portrait of Sir Hugh Gough
• Sycee Silver
• Chinese Trophies at Windsor Castle
• 67th Foot taking fort (1860 color print)

Chinese Landscapes and Landscapes from the 1842 Illustrated London News

• View of the Canton River
• The English Factory, Canton
• Nankin
• Porcelain Tower at Nankin
• Whampoa
• View of Macao
• The Imperial Canal, China
• Golden Island

Related Web Resources

• Erik Ringmar's The Fury of the Europeans: liberal barbarism and the destruction of the Emperor’s Summer Palace (Taiwan site)

"This is the home page for my on-going research project on the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan, the Summer Palace of the Chinese Emperor, by British and French troops in 1860."

Postcolonial and Postimperial Fiction about the Opium Wars

• Timoth Mo's An Insular Possession (UK, 1986)

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