Matthew Mosca on John King Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854

Micah and Matthew Mosca discuss John King Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast: The Opening of the Treaty Ports, 1842-1854 (Harvard University Press, 1953). 

Check out Matthew's book From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China (Stanford University Press, 2013), which uses Manchu, Mongolian, Chinese sources to reformulate our understanding of Qing China's foreign affairs.

For more on Micah's favorite, Wu Jianzhang 吴健彰, see Peter C. Perdue, "Interlopers, Rogues, or Cosmopolitans? Wu Jianzhang and Early Modern Commercial Networks on the China Coast," Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 25 (2017). 

Click here to read the Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing Period entry on Qiying 耆英 by Fang Chao-ying. 

Works mentioned in the episode are listed here: 

Hosea Ballou Morse, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1910–1918), 3 volumes. 

Arthur W. Hummel, Sr. Eminent Chinese of the Ch'ing period, 1644-1912 (U.S. Government Printing Office, 1943-1944), 2 volumes. 

Mary Clabaugh Wright, "The T'ung-Chih Restoration," Ph. D. Dissertation, Radcliffe College, 1950.

Joseph Richmond Levenson, "Crisis of the Mind in Modern China: The Life and Writings of Liang Ch'i-ch'ao, Down to the Fall of the Empire," Ph. D. Dissertation, Harvard University, 1949.

James L. Hevia, English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China (Duke University Press, 2009).

J.Y. Wong, Deadly Dreams: Opium, Imperialism, and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China (Cambridge University Press, 1998).

Joseph Esherick, "Harvard on China: The Apologetics of Imperialism," Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars 4:4 (1972), 9-16.

《籌辦夷務始末: 260卷》(故宮博物院, [北京]: 1929-1930).

J.K. Fairbank and S.Y. Teng, "On the Transmission of Ch'ing Documents," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 4:1 (1939): 12–46.

J.K. Fairbank and S.Y. Teng, "On the Types and Uses of Ch'ing Documents," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 5:1 (1940): 1–71.

J.K. Fairbank and S.Y. Teng, "On the Ch'ing Tributary System," Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 6:2 (1941): 135–246.

Ssu-yü Teng and John K. Fairbank, China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1829-1923 (Harvard University Press, 1954).

John King Fairbank, The Chinese World Order: Traditional China's Foreign Relations (Harvard University Press, 1968).

《哈佛燕京學社引得. 9, 三十三種清代傳記綜合引得: 第一號》 Harvard-Yenching Institute Sinological Index Series, Index to Thirty-Three Collections of Ch'ing Dynasty Biographies (1931).

James M. Polachek, The Inner Opium War (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1992).

Pär Kristoffer Cassel, Grounds of Judgment: Extraterritoriality and Imperial Power in Nineteenth-Century China and Japan (Oxford University Press, 2012).