Books
Ebrey, Patricia Buckley, ed. Chinese Civilization and Society: A Sourcebook. New York: Free Press, 1981. DS 721 .C517
Cheng, Pei-kai, Michael Elliot Lestz, and Jonathan D. Spence. The Search for Modern China: A Documentary Collection. New York: Norton, 1999. DS 753.86 .S33 1999
Hunter, William Wilson, James Sutherland Cotton, Richard Burn, and William Meyer. Imperial Gazetteer of India. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907. Digital South Asian Library ebook
Imperial Institute (Great Britain). The Year Book of the Imperial Institute of the United Kingdom, the Colonies and India: A Statistical Record of the Resources and Trade of the Colonial and Indian Possessions of the British Empire. 1892. Google ebook
Michael, Franz H. The Taiping Rebellion; History and Documents. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966. DS 759 .M57
Sharf, Frederic Alan, and Peter Harrington. China, 1900: The Eyewitnesses Speak : the Experience of Westerners in China During the Boxer Rebellion, As Described by Participants in Letters, Diaries and Photographs. London: Greenhill Books, 2000. DS 770 .S54 2000
Teng, Ssu-yü, and John King Fairbank. China's Response to the West: A Documentary Survey, 1839-1923. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1979. DS 740.4 .T43 1978
Websites
EuroDocs—Brigham Young University. EuroDocs is a wiki of European History primary sources. EuroDocs is similar to Humbul. Resources are arranged by area or country. Once in a particular country, the resources are then broken down by era.
Google Book—The Google Book Project is collaboration between Google and twenty universities to digitize large portions of their print collection. Books that fall outside of copyright (pre-1923) are viewable in full-text.
The Hai-lu—Brooklyn College. A Chinese traveler's account of the West in the 18th century.
HathiTrust—This digial library is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world.
Modern History Sourcebook: Imperialism—Fordham University. This site provides a linked index of imperialism primary sources. This includes the primary sources:
Qian Long Ch'ien-lung: Letter to George III 1793—Qian Long [Ch'ien Lung], (r. 1735-1795) ruled China for much of the 18th century, the last period in which China was strong enough to resist, or better, disdain external influence. Here is letter he sent in response to a request from George III of Britain (r. 1760-1820) for trade privileges.
The Taiping Rebellion, 1851-1864—The following is an excerpt from the basic document of the Taiping Kingdom, called "The Land System of the Heavenly Kingdom." published in 1853.
