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	The Opium War - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ChinaDragon/opiumwar.html Links and discussion forum on both the war and a 1997 movie based upon it, DigitalChina/Harvard project.
	Ch'ing China - The Opium Wars - http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/CHING/OPIUM.HTM Also called the Anglo-Chinese War, the most humiliating defeat China ever suffered.
	Emergence Of Modern China - http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/modern.html The increase contact with western powers led to war and enforced change.
	Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ChinaDragon/lin_xexu.html Full text written by Commissioner Lin Zexu in the lead up to the war.
	The Treaty of Nanking - http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob24.html Peace Treaty between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China.

	Emperor of China Declares War on Drugs - http://www.oldnewspublishing.com/opium.htm An article by Paul Chrastina.
	The Opium War and the Opening of China - http://historyliterature.homestead.com/files/extended.html Extended essay on the effects of the war on the opening of China, on social, economical, political, and intellectual levels.
	The First Opium War - http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/oriental_history/19388 Article by Maria Christensen.

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