Title:   "Shanghai'd": Background and Establishment of the Unequal Treaty System

Speaker:   Dr. Howard Spendelow

Topic/Issues:  

1. The Qing vision of "international relations"
2. Early European diplomacy: Russia and England
3. 1757: India enters the picture
4. Two kinds of addiction
5. Role of technological change
6. Imposing a new framework

Resources:

1. China's Revolutionary Century, part I

Readings:

1. Wakeman, Frederic.  Strangers at the Gate
2. Cohen, Paul.  Discovering History in China
3. Bickers, Robert.  The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 (London: Allen Lane, 2011)
4. Spence, Jonathan.  To Change China

Goals:

1. [tbd]