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International Conflict and Invasion

From the late nineteenth century, Chinese played host to numerous military incursions from foreign powers. Included in this theme are general histories of wars with Britain, Japan and Russia, accounts of specific military actions and profiles of prominent military figures.

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication
The American almanac and repository of useful knowledge for the year 1841		1840	Boston
Are missionaries in any way responsible for the present disturbances in China?	Dubose, Hampden C.	[1900]
"Bethink yourselves": Tolstoy's letter on the Russo-Japanese war	Tolstoy, Leo	1904	Boston
The bombardment of Canton	Shortrede, Andrew	1857	London
The bombardment of Canton: six letters addressed to the editor of the "Daily News" by a twelve years' resident in China	Shortrede, Andrew	1857	London
Books and authors: the national literary newspaper		September 1917
Can the hostile proceedings of the British at Canton be justified?	E.J.	1857	London
China vs. Japan		February 1919	New York
China's claims at the peace table		March 1919	New York
Chinese account of the Opium War	Parker, E.H.	1888	Shanghai
Chinese Gordon: the uncrowned king: his character as it is portrayed in his private letters, compiled by Laura C. Holloway	Gordon, Charles George, 1833-1885	1885	New York
The Chinese question	Hallett, Holt S.
Chinese view of the war	Cheng, F.T.	[August 1915]
Correspondence regarding the negotiations between Japan and Russia (1903-1904)		1904	Washington D.C.
The cyclopedic review of current history		March 1901	Boston, Mass.
Deeds of valor in the war between China and Japan, 1894: how America's heroes won the Medal of Honor		1905	Detroit, Mich.
The destruction of Kagosima, and our intercourse with Japan	Richard, Henry	1863	London
The destruction of the schools for the blind by the Chinese in Peking in June 1900		1901
England and China: their future duty, interest, and safety: in a letter to the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, bart. &c. &c. &c., by an Englishman		1842	London
Experiences in China	Dickman, J.T., Captain	[1901]
Famous battles of the nineteenth century	Welsh, Charles	1907-1910	New York
The first British bombardment in Japan and the debate on it in the House of Commons		April 1864	London
The French at Foochow	Roche, James F.; Cowen, L.L.	1884	Shanghai
The hand of God in the siege of Peking	Smith, A.H., Rev
A hand-book on the annexation of Hawaii	Thurston, Lorrin A.	[1897?]	Michigan
Has the United States a duty and a destiny to fulfill in China?	Webster, John Lee, 1847-	[1900?]
The heart of Pekin: Bishop A. Favier's diary of the siege, May-August, 1900, edited by Rev J. Freri	Favier, Alphonse, 1837-1905	1901	Boston
The hope of the Philippines	Seaman, Louis Livingston, Major
The hostilities at Canton	Stapleton, Augustus G.	1857	London
A letter to Lord Lyndhurst, on the late debate upon China	Kelly, Fitzroy Edward, Sir, 1796-1880	1857	London
A narrative of the recent events in Tong-King	Cordier, Henri	January 1875	Shanghai
Narrative of the shipwreck of the "Kite"		March 1841	Macau
The Nation, volume CIV		1917	New York
The new quarrel in China		1859	London
Origin and progress of the war between England and China	Edmonds, John Worth, 1799-1874	1841	New York
Origin and progress of the war between England and China	Edmonds, John W.	1924	Seattle
Our interests in China. A letter to the Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G.	Lay, Horatio N.	1864	London
The Pacific and the Amoor. Naval, military, and diplomatic operations from 1855 to 1861	Marx, Francis	May 1861	London
The Peking legations: a national uprising and international episode	Hart, Robert, Sir, 1835-1911	1900	Shanghai
Peril of China's revolt	Totten, Charles Adiel Lewis, 1851-1908	[1900]	[New Haven, CT]
The quarrel between Great Britain and China		April 1840
Questions of the day. No 1	Tyler, Captain	1857	London
The relations between China and Japan during the last twenty-five years		1919	London
Report of the East India Committee of the Colonial Society on the causes and consequences of the military operations in China	East India Committee, Colonial Society, London	1843	London
Report of the East India Committee of the Colonial Society on the causes and consequences of the military operations in China	East India Committee, Colonial Society	1843	London
Reports, minutes and despatches, on the British position and prospects in China	Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868	[1846]	London
Responsibility among the Chinese	Cady, C.M.	January 1896
The responsibility of Great Britain for the present crisis in China, and our duties for the future in the Far East	Pickering, W.A.	1900	London
The rupture with China, and its causes: including the opium question, and other important details, in a letter to Lord Viscount Palmerston by a resident in China		1840	London
The Russians in Manchuria	Kropotkin, P.	May 1901
The Russo-Chinese question		August 1880	Shanghai
A short history of Chinkiang	Woodbridge, Samuel I.	1898	[Chinkiang?]
The sources of the anti-foreign disturbances in China: with a supplementary account of the uprising of 1900	Reid, Gilbert, 1857-1927	1903	Shanghai
The story of China: with a description of the events relating to the present struggle, with over seventy illustrations and maps from photographs taken by the author and others, and from original drawings	Edwards, Neville	1900	London, Philadelphia
The war in Tong-King: why the French are in Tong-King, and what they are doing there	Staunton, Sidney Augustus	1884	Boston
What shall we do with our dependencies?	Storey, Moorfield	1903	Boston

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