opium, regimes of capitalism,
- through its function as an addictive substance, opium was bound to guarantee a demand that the East India Company needed to reduce the British trade deficits with China - discuss. Again, through its addictive properties, opium was the thread knitting together money, bodies (violence) and theories of race and superiority -discuss.
Note: compulsory readings have been marked in bold
- Alexander, Joseph G. 1896. “The Truth about the Opium War.” The North American Review 163 (478): 381–83. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25118713.
- Derks, Hans. 2012. “JAPAN.” In History of the Opium Problem, 493–530. The Assault on the East, ca. 1600 - 1950. Brill. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1163/j.ctv4cbhdf.32.
- Melancon, Glenn. 1999. “Honour in Opium? The British Declaration of War on China, 1839–1840.” The International History Review 21 (4): 855–74. https://doi.org/10.1080/07075332.1999.9640880.
- Taylor, Jeremy E. 2002. “The Bund: Littoral Space of Empire in the Treaty Ports of East Asia.” Social History 27 (2): 125–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/03071020210128364.
- Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. 1992. “Opium, Expulsion, Sovereignty. China’s Lessons for Bakumatsu Japan.” Monumenta Nipponica 47 (1): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.2307/2385356.
- Wataru, Masuda. 2000. “The Influence of the Opium War on Japan.” In Japan and China: Mutual Representations in the Modern Era, edited by Masuda Wataru, 43–47. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-08365-4_9.
- Parker, Edward Harper, and Yuan Wei. 1888. Chinese Account of the Opium War. Shanghai : Kelly & Walsh, ltd. http://archive.org/details/chineseaccountof00parkrich.
- The Opium War in Japanese Eyes (essay by John Dower)
- Hong Kong and the Opium Wars, an excellent educational resource of the UK National Archives.
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