China and the West

• East Asian History Sourcebook

 European spheres of influence in China

• As China Sees the World
• The Reception of the First English Ambassador to China, 1792 
• Emperor Qian Long : Letter to George III, 1793 
• The People of Canton: Against the English, 1842  
• Commissioner Lin Cixu: Letter to the English Ruler  or Shorter Version 
• John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door note on China, Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1899
• Kaiser Wilhelm II: German Interests in China, 1900 
• Map of Lost Chinese Territory
• China and the Western Intrusion
• The Atlantic: The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899

Opium Wars (1839 - 1842 and 1858 - 1860) 

• The Opium Wars (contains both Chinese and Western perspectives)
• Ellen N. La Motte: The Opium Monopoly, 1920 
• Commissioner Lin: Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
• The First Opium War
• The Opium Trade

Taiping Rebellion and Desire for Westernization

• The Taiping Revellion, 1851-1864,  

• Emperor Kuang Hsu: Attempted Reforms, 1898 
• Emperor Kuang Hsu: Abolition of the Examination System, 1898

• Isaac Taylor Headland,  1859-1942: Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people,  Contemporary discussion of reform efforts in late imperial China, with a significant discussion of the lives of elite women.

• Emergence of Modern China: Taiping Rebellion
• The Taiping Rebellion
• Chinese Cultural Studies: Taiping Rebellion
• Yan Phou Lee: When I Went to School in China, 1880  A late Confucian education.

Treaty of Nanjing

• Treaty of Nanjing

• Treaty of Nanjing - Wikipedia

Extraterritoriality

• Treaty Ports and Extraterritorality in China - 1921-22

• The Hundred Day's Reform and Aftermath

Boxer Rebellion

• Fei Ch'i-hao: The Boxer Rebellion, 1900  A long account of anti-Missionary atrocities by a Chinese Christian.

• The Boxer Rebellion
• The Boxer Rebellion
• Ch'ing China: The Boxer Rebellion
• Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900 In response to the Boxer rebellion.
• Yao Chen-Yuan: My Adventures During the Boxer War, 1900
• 1901:  The Boxer Protocol

Sun Yat-sen (Sun Yixian) and the Chinese Revolution (1910- 1911)

• Paul S. Reinsch: A Parliament for China, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 
• Proclamation of The Abdication of the Manchus, 1912  
• Ching Chun Wang: A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1913