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*[https://archive.org/details/morningofmylifei00nyegrich ''The Morning of My Life in China: comprising an outline of the history of foreign intercourse from the last year of the regime of Honorable East India Company, 1833, to the imprisonment of the foreign community in 1839''] by Gideon Nye 1873 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/britishtradeopen0000gree/page/n7/mode/2up ''British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42''] by Michael Greenberg 1951. [https://archive.org/details/britishtradeope00gree [1979<nowiki>]</nowiki> reprint edition]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924023216827 ''The 'Fan Kwae' at Canton before treaty days, 1825-1844''] by An Old Resident [William C Hunter] 2nd edition 1911 (First published 1882) Archive.org [Fan Kwae= Foreign Barbarians, Devils] *[https://archive.org/details/creejournalsvoya0000cree ''The Cree journals : the voyages of Edward H. Cree, Surgeon R.N., as related in his private journals, 1837-1856''] edited and with an introduction by Michael Levien 1981 Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. Includes ten years in the Far East including the [[1st China War|First Opium War]] period and pursuit of a Chinese pirate fleet in 1849.
*[https://archive.org/details/sixmonthsamongma00yvanrich ''Six months among the Malays, and a year in China''] by Dr Yvan, Physician to the scientific mission sent by France to China, pub. 1855 Archive.org. The book appears to be translations of extracts from the book [https://archive.org/details/defranceenchine00yvangoog ''De France en Chine''] by Melchior Yvan 1855 Archive.org. This expedition departed France December 1843.
*[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.536630/page/n3/mode/2up ''Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast. The Opening of the Treaty Ports 1842-1854''] by John King Fairbank. 2nd edition 1969, first published 1953. Archive.org.
