Imperial Twilight
The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
by Stephen R. Platt
- Publication
- First published 2018
- ISBNs
- 9781786494870, 9780345803023, 9781786494887
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Describes how nineteenth-century British efforts to open China to trade set in motion the fall of the Qing dynasty and started a war that allowed for the rise of nationalism and communism in the twentieth century.
Prize history
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