The good news is we've generally stopped conceiving of China's post-1800 history as one consisting exclusively of foreign depredations in favour of one that maybe considers the possibility – rather outlandish I know – that China and the people in it have agency. The bad news, therefore, is that we're less concerned with the whole 'beat down and cannibalisation' aspect. Still, there's a few options in the Late Qing section of the booklist.

My personal recommendations are:

• Julia Lovell's The Opium War, which also gives a quick summary of events after the 1839-42 conflict;
• Stephen Platt's Imperial Twilight, which is a view more focussed on the origins of the war;
• Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, because you need to know about the Taiping; and
• Cohen's History in Three Keys, if nothing else because it's just a bit more accessible to a lay reader than Esherick's book.

Two that aren't on the booklist (well, one that's implicitly there and one that isn't):

• William T. Rowe's China's Last Empire: The Great Qing is a very good overview of the Qing in general, and gives some background as to why we're no longer laser-focussed on colonialism and its own narratives.
• Dong Wang's China's Unequal Treaties: Narrating National History, like the later chapters of Lovell's book, discusses the emergence and evolution of the narrative of national humiliation.