The Opium War, overlapping empires, and China's water borders by Luk, C

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Two Opium War Novels : A Consideration of Historical Novels During Wartime by Yuanchao SHAN

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Masts Like a Forest: Chinese Shipbuilding from the Zheng War to the Opium War (c. 1644-1839) by Ian M. Miller, Jason E. Maltz

“… Chinese sailing ships, often called “junks,” were a flexibly technology that economized on materials, a key to both the military and commercial flourishing of Qing China (c. 1644-1912) until the Opium War (1839-42). During periods of conflict, shipwrights incorporated new designs to maximize speed, maneuverability, and firepower. …”
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The Opium Wars and Capital Accumulation: Comments on Karl Marx’s Perspectives on the Qing and England Recorded in The New York Herald Tribune by Hongren Xie

“…In the mid-nineteenth century, Marx had already clearly observed the close relationship between the Opium Wars and capital accumulation.…”
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21H.912 The World Since 1492, Spring 2003 by Russell, Mona L.

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21H.912 The World Since 1492, Fall 2004 by Ciarlo, David

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A Study of Western Influence on Timber Supply and Carpentry in South China in the Early 20th Century by Yiting Pan, James W. P. Campbell

“…The formation of the Treaty Ports after the Opium Wars saw the introduction of the ideas of the Industrial Revolution to Imperial China. …”
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Echoes of Victorian Hellenism in Mid‑Nineteenth‑Century China by Eicher, Sebastian

“…This will give us insight into the cultural strategies the missionaries adopted in the era between the Opium Wars and also shed some light on the development of terms like Western Learning, philosophy and literature. …”
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Accounting and Statistics in China Under the Qing Dynasty by M. A. Amurskaya

“…The research divided the features of the national economy growth during the Qing Dynasty into two historical periods: before the opium wars and in the post-opium period until the fall of the dynasty itself. …”
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Institutional mosaic of financial institutions in the late Qing China and synthesis of organizational forms: from piaohao and qianzhuang to the central bank by M. S. Kruglova

“…By the time of the Chinese economy “forced opening” by Western powers during the Opium Wars, China had its own quasi-banking institutions based on the established clan networks of trade organizations that covered the credit needs of the traditional economy. …”
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Japan and China: Mutual Perception of Recent Historical Experience through the Prism of the West-East Opposition by Kulneva P.V.

“…The chronological framework of the study thus covers the period starting from the “Opium Wars” in China and the Meiji Restoration in Japan, makes a focus on the war of 1937–1945, which is viewed as the culmination of the crisis in bilateral relations, and ends with the current situation, when both countries are still trying to comprehend this difficult period of their history. …”
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JAPANS’S CHINA STRATEGY by A. A. Kireeva

“…Japan has to a significant degree accommodated China’s rise by facilitating the successful implementation of its grand strategy, seen as the restoration of a great power status that China lost in the 19th century opium wars. The beginning of the 21st century saw a reassessment of Japan’s foreign policy and adopting a proactive stance. …”
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On Some Historical Aspects of Money Laundering in Russia and China by A. S. Poliychuk

“…The article shows that in China during the Tang Dynasty (VII–X century AD), money laundering methods demonstrated active development, and then reached a level critical for maintaining statehood in the era of the Opium Wars (XIX century), although they were subsequently partially leveled during the socialist period of Chinese statehood in the twentieth century. …”
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CHALLENGING THE PALATE AND THE MIND. INTRODUCING WESTERN BAKING VOCABULARY INTO CHINESE by Mugur ZLOTEA

“…After China’s defeat in the two Opium Wars, in the mid-19th century, the increasing foreign presence on Chinese soil meant both an increase in demand for cooks able to satisfy the dietary needs of the Westerners, and of restaurants serving Western food, especially in cities with foreign concessions, like Shanghai, where dining in such a place had become very “modern”. …”
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“The Chinese as I Have Seen Them”: A Diachronic Analysis of Western Perception on the Chinese in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Valeria Franceschi

“… It is estimated that around 12000 Westerners were living in the Chinese Empire at the end of the 19th century (Détrie 509); especially after the first Opium War (1839-1842), locals and Westerners learnt to co-habit, with the latter improving their quality of life. …”
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“The Chinese as I Have Seen Them”: A Diachronic Analysis of Western Perception on the Chinese in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries by Valeria Franceschi

“… It is estimated that around 12000 Westerners were living in the Chinese Empire at the end of the 19th century (Détrie 509); especially after the first Opium War (1839-1842), locals and Westerners learnt to co-habit, with the latter improving their quality of life. …”
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近代我國圖書館事業的發軔 The Beginning of Modern Library Movement in China by Chien-cheng Soong

“…This article describes the rise of library system in China from the Opium War (1839-1840) to the last days of Ching dynasty (1909), its background, development, and the western impact upon it.…”
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SEMNIFICAȚIA „SECOLULUI UMILINȚEI“ by Vohn, Cristina

“…The Chinese believe that it began during the first Opium War in 1839, when England invaded southern China, and ended with the liberation of China from foreign troops and the victory of the Chinese Communists who proclaimed the People’s Republic of China in 1949. …”
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The Historical Basis for the Belt and Road Initiative by Zhang Haipeng

“…From a perspective of historical evolution, the entire history of the Silk Road can be divided into several stages, namely, the Silk Road 1.0 era (pre-Qin period — the Yuan Dynasty), the Silk Road 2.0 era (the Ming and Qing dynasties), the Silk Road 3.0 era (the Opium War — the Republic of China) and the Silk Road 4.0 era (the “Belt and Road” Initiative period). …”
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The formation of the legal system for modern planning in China before 1950: comparison with Japan’s 1919 act by Fu Shulan

“…Overall, their modern transition started after the Opium War, beginning with the foreign settlements and concessions, and spurred on by the Late Qing Reform for constitutionalism and a modern state legal system. …”
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