The Western Intrusion

General

• Vasco da Gama: Round Africa to India, 1497-1498 CE 
• Ferdinand Magellan's Voyage Round the World, 1519-1522 CE 
• Map: China's Problems in the Late 19th Century
• Map: Lost Chinese Territory
• Image: Opium Smokers

European Imperialism

• Thomas Mun (1571-1641): England's Treasure by Foreign Trade, pub 1664, extracts, [At Northpark] and extracts [At Hanover]
• Adam Smith: From The Wealth of Nations, 1776: Of Colonies, and The Cost of Empire [At The American Revolution Site]
• Trade Products in Early Modern History [At UMN]
• The South Sea Bubble [Modern Report][At History Place]
• Analyses
  • John A. Hobson (1858-1940): Imperialism, 1902, excerpts
  • John A. Hobson (1858-1940): The Economic Bases of Imperialism [At LSMSA]
  • Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Imperialism and the Split in Socialism, 1916 [At Marx.Org][Full Text]
  • Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism, 1916 [At blythe.org][Full Text]
  • Joseph A. Schumpeter: The Sociology of Imperialism, 1918 
  • Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms [At Mt. Holyoke]

British East Asia

• The East India Trade [At Copenhagen]
• East India Company History [At East India Company Page]
  The company still exists, and its homepage presents its history.
• Ellen N. La Motte: The Opium Monopoly, 1920 [At Drug Library]
• C. G. Rawlings: The March to Lhasa, July 1904 [At Hillsdale]
• Image: Hist. Illus.: Chinese View of an 18th Century English Sailor

Other European Powers in East Asia

• Prince Ukhtomskii: Russia's Imperial Destiny, 1891 [At this Site]
  Asia as the central focus.
• Jules Ferry (1832-1893): On French Colonial Expansion, 1884
  Concerned especially with France's move into Indo-China.
• Kaiser Wilhelm II: German Interests in China, 1900 [At HNet]
• Pierre Loti: When the Allies Entered Peking, 1900
  In response to the Boxer Rebellion

United States Imperialism

• John Hay to Andrew D. White, First Open Door note on China, Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1899 [At LSU]
• Image: Anti-Chinese Cartoon from 1877 bw
• Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy 1898-1914, [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Josiah Strong: On Anglo-Saxon Predominance, 1891 [At Mt. Holyoke]
• Albert Beveridge (1862-1927): The March of the Flag, September 16, 1898 
• The Atlantic: The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899 [At The Atlantic]
• John W. Foster: The Chinese Boycot, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906 [At The Atlantic]
  Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.
• Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden, 1899 
• James Henry Breasted: The Conquest of Civilization (selections), 1926 [At WHA] 
• Anti-Imperialism in the United States 1898-1935 [At Rochester]
  A very impressive collection of texts and essays. Rather excessive emphasis on the creator's ownership of the material (without alerting readers that all pre-1923 published material is in the US public domain).
• Jim Zwick: The White Man's Burden and Its Critics [At Rochester]
  A really excellent guide to responses at the time.

Missionaries

• John of Monte Corvino: Letter to the Minister General of the Friars Minor in Rome, c. 1280
• John of Monte Corvino: Report on China, 1305.
• St. Francis Xavier: Letter on the Missions,  to St. Ignatius de Loyola, 1549
• St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus at Goa, 1551
• St. Francis Xavier: Letter from Japan, to the Society of Jesus in Europe, 1552
• Hsu Kuang-chi: Memorial to Fra Matteo Ricci, 1617
• Mendez Pinto: The Woman with the Cross, c. 1630
  A Chinese Christian woman.
• Documents on the Chinese Rites Controversy, 1692, 1715, 1721, excerpts
  How the Catholic Church "lost" China.
• Chinese Province of the Society of Jesus