CHINESE POLITICAL HISTORY: Pre-1949

Macartney Mission (1793)

• The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's First Embassy to China (British Library)

Opium War (1839-42)

• Digital Harvard/China Opium War Link
• Opium War Documents (Prof. John O'Brien, John Jay College of Criminal Justice; scroll down to Reference Documents, The International Scene, China)

Boxer Rebellion (1900)

• The Boxer Rebellion
• The Boxer Rebellion: The Third China War
• China & the Boxer Uprising: 3-D Photographs
• Photos from the Boxer Rebellion
• The Centennial of the Boxer Rebellion (Yale University Library)

Image Collections

• The Hedda Morrison Photographs of China, 1933-46 (Harvard-Yenching Library)
• China Through the Stereoscope at the Time of the Boxer Uprising (c.1900)
• Formosa [Taiwan] in the 19th Century (Reed College)

The Long March (1934-35)

• Long March 2003 -- Retracing the Route
• Choosing Revolution: Chinese Women Soldiers on the Long March (by Helen P. Young)

Nanjing Massacre (1937)

• Online Documentary: The Nanjing Atrocities (Masato Kajimoto, University of Missouri, Multimedia Masters' Thesis)
• China News Digest Nanjing Massacre Site
• 60th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre
• Memorial Hall to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre
• A Japanese Perspective (from Japan Echo magazine)

Sino-Japanese War (1895)

• A Joint Study of the Sino-Japanese War (1931-45), Harvard University Asia Center