1. Examples of recent historiography on the Lady Hughes incident include: James Bromley Eames, The English in China (London, 1974), p. 96; Frederic E. Wakeman, The Fall of Imperial China (New York, 1975), p. 134;
2. Philip Chadwick Foster Smith, The Empress of China (Philadelphia, 1984), p. 195;
3. Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü, The Rise of Modern China (Oxford, 2000), p. 154;
4. James Z. Gao, Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949) (Lanham, 2009), pp. 184–5;
5. Harold Miles Tanner, China: A History (Indianapolis, 2009), pp. 373–4;