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*[https://www.houghton.hk/?p=84 "Opium 1793 – 1838"] in three parts from "A Peoples' History 1793 – 1844 from the newspapers" houghton.hk. From Chinese region newspapers.
===Historical books online===
* ''Foreign Mud: being an account of the opium imbroglio at Canton in the 1830s & the Anglo-Chinese War that followed'' by Maurice Collis 1946. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.209009 Archive.org mirror version] from Digital Library of India.1968 reprint editions: [https://archive.org/details/foreignmudopiumi0000coll/mode/2up 1st file], [https://archive.org/details/foreignmud0000unse/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file]. Both Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*British Parliamentary Papers:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ezFDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Appendix to the Report on the Affairs of the East India Company. Volume 4: Administration of Monopolies. Opium and Salt: 11 October 1831''] Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=ZNT3ohiMQaMC&printsec=frontcover ''The opium trade: including a sketch of its history, extent, effects, etc., as carried on in India and China''] by Nathan Allen M.D. 2nd Edition 1853 (first published 1850)
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/truthaboutindian00grearich#page/n1/mode/2up ''The truth about Indian opium''] by G. Graham Dixon. Printed for and issued by the Industries and Overseas Department, India Office 1922 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924023283546#page/n7/mode/2up ''Drug smuggling and taking in India and Burma''] by Roy K Anderson 1922 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/opiumwar184018420000fayp/page/n3/mode/2up ''The Opium War, 1840-1842 : Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the early part of the nineteenth century and the war by which they forced her gates ajar''] by Peter Ward Fay. 1997 reprint edition, originally published 1975. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/flowersinbloodst00lati/mode/2up ''Flowers in the Blood : the Story of Opium''] by Dean Latimer and Jeff Goldberg 1981. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
*[https://archive.org/details/opiumwarsaddicti00hane/mode/2up ''Opium Wars : the addiction of one empire and the corruption of another''] by W Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello 2002. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*[http://www.survivorlibrary.com/?page_id=3542 Survivor Library: Opium] Links to pdf downloads, mainly written mid to late 1800s. survivorlibrary.com. Note: it is possible some of these books may be available to read online on alternative sites such as Archive.org
====Fiction====
* ''The Ibis Trilogy'' by Amitav Ghosh
**[https://archive.org/details/seaofpoppies0000ghos/mode/2up ''Sea of Poppies''] by Amitav Ghosh 2008. [https://archive.org/details/seaofpoppies00ghos 2nd file]
*:Article:[https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2009/01/15/adventures-in-the-opium-trade/ "Adventures in the Opium Trade"] by Cathleen Schine January 15, 2009 nybooks.com.
**''River of Smoke'' by Amitav Ghosh 2011.[https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos_f5n4 1st file], [https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos/mode/2up 2nd file], [https://archive.org/details/riverofsmoke0000ghos_s7j1/mode/2up 3rd file]
**[https://archive.org/details/floodoffire0000ghos ''Flood of Fire''] by Amitav Ghosh 2015.
:All Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.
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