Posted: November 16th, 2015

Opium War

Length: 2000-2500 words (8-10 pages), 12 point Times New Roman font preferred.

Format: Please use footnotes or endnotes (Not MLA or APE), and include a bibliography of published scholarly works (there is no set number of works required, but consider 7-8 books or articles. Encyclopedia notations and non-peer reviewed internet articles do not qualify as scholarly works).

General Bibliographies for Chinese History
University of California, San Diego, Department of History
https://ucsdmodernchinesehistory.wordpress.com/%E6%9B%B8%E7%9B%AE-bibliographies/

University of Maine, Department of History
https://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/bibtxt2.html

Jonathan Spence, Search for Modern China
See ‘Further Readings’ at end of text for topics and key secondary sources.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
https://bmc.lib.umich.edu/bas (log in through UWO library)

11) Sino-Foreign Conflict in the 19th century. In respect to any of the following, why was China unable to defend itself and/or what were the consequences of defeat?
(Sources, https://hua.umf.maine.edu/China/ew.html)
a) Opium War