LibGuides: HISTORY 495S/496S: Honors Thesis Seminar 2024/25: Topic: China and Opium

Subject Librarian

Luo Zhou, Chinese Studies Librarian, luo.zhou@duke.edu

This guide is on English language sources, resources in Chinese can be provided if needed.

China: Culture and Society This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources from a rare pamphlets collection on East Asia. Includes secondary resources like essays, an interactive chronology and mini guides
China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980 This link opens in a new window
Search for primary sources on the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China
China and the Modern World This link opens in a new window
Search primary sources on diplomacy/international relations, economy/trade, politics, Christianity, sinology, education, science and technology, imperialism, and globalization in 19th and 20th century China.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980 This link opens in a new window
Search British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan between 1919 and 1980
Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange This link opens in a new window
Search for primary source materials related to the study of global commodities, transported, exchanged and consumed around the world for hundreds of years
ProQuest Historical Newspapers: Chinese Newspapers Collection This link opens in a new window
Search for news articles from Chinese Newspapers from 1832-1953

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles and books published worldwide pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia on all subjects (especially humanities and social sciences)
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search a collection of important scholarly journals representing a range of disciplines.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in the humanities and social sciences published by university presses, including the Duke University Press

Find books in Duke's catalog using keywords: China, Opium, "drug control". and limit language to English. See some examples:

Anti-Drug Crusades in Twentieth-Century China by Zhou Yongming
ISBN: 9780847695973
Publication Date: 1999-11-23
China's Drug Practices and Policies by Hong Lu; Terance D. Miethe; Bin Liang
ISBN: 9780754676942
Publication Date: 2009-09-21
Narcotic Culture by Frank Dikötter; Lars Laamann; Zhou Xun; Frank Dikötter
ISBN: 9780226149059
Publication Date: 2004-04-16
Opium and the Limits of Empire by David Anthony Bello
ISBN: 9780674016491
Publication Date: 2005-04-30
Opium Regimes by Timothy Brook (Editor); Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi (Editor)
ISBN: 9780520924499
Publication Date: 2000-01-01