Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt
Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age
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Stephen R. Platt
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Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

530 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country's last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.When Britain launched its first war on China in 1...

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