（23）原文是“…old,crazy,first-rate Man of War,[overawing its] neighbours merely by her bulk and appearance。”
    （24）任期为1825-1828年。
    （25）John Quincy Adams,Lecture on the War with China,reprinted in the Chinese Repository,V.11,Macao,1842,p.288.
    （26）Editor's note,Chinese Repository,p.289.
    （27）Douglas Hurd,The "Arrow" War:An Anglo-Chinese Confusion 1856-1860,London:Collins,1967,p.27.
    （28）任期为1989-1995年。
    （29）D.C.M.Platt,Finance,Trade,and Politics:British Foreign Policy 1815-1914,Oxford:Oxford University Press,1968,p.265.
    （30）H.B.Morse,The International Relations of the Chinese Empire,Shanghai:Kelly and Walsh,1910-1918,three volumes,v.1,chapters 3-7.
    （31）参见J.K.Fairbank.Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast:The Opening of Treaty Ports,1842-1854,Cambridge,MA.:Harvard University Press,1953; Chang Hsin-pao,Commissioner Lin and the Opium War,Cambridge,MA.:Harvard University Press,1964。
    （32）原文是：“That may be one reason why Britain' s two small nineteenth-century wars with China are known by names more credible to 21st century ears:‘Opium Wars’。”
    （33）参考书目包括：Arthur Waley,The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes,Stanford:Stanford University Press,1958; Edgar Holt,The Opium Wars in China,London:Putnam,1964; Jack Beeching,The Chinese Opium Wars,New York:Harcourt,1975。遗漏的参考书目包括：Peter Ward Fay,The Opium War,1840-1842,Chapel Hill,NC:University of North Carolina Press,1975; Brian Inglis,The Opium War,London Hodder and Stoughton,1976; Tan Chung,China and the Brave New World:A Study of the Origins of the Opium War,1840-1842,New Delhi:Allied Publishers,1978; James Polachek,The Inner Opium War,Cambridge,MA:Harvard Council on East Asian Studies,1992; James Hevia,English Lessons:The Pedogogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China,Durham,NC:Duke University Press.2003。
    （34）至于骆菲尔由于过分依赖出版物而重蹈古人覆辙之处，上文已有评论，在此不赘述。
    （35）参见John Y.Wong,Deadly Dreams:Opium,Imperialism,and the “Arrow”War （1856-1860） in China,Cambridge University Press,1998。
    （36）参见W.C.Costin,Great Britain and China,1833-1860,Oxford University Press,1937,p.207。
    （37）（38）（39）参见John Y.Wong,Deadly Dreams:Opium,Imperialism,and the “Arrow”War （1856-1860） in China,chapter 2,3,11。