Opium War and the Opening of China
Includes background, treaties, and economic effects.
historyliterature.homestead.com/files/extended.html
Lin Tse-Hsu (1785-1850): Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839
Written before the outbreak of the Opium Wars. It was a remarkably frank document, especially given the usual highly stylized language of Chinese diplomacy. There remains some question whether Queen Victoria ever read the letter.
acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/com-lin.html
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