The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: a History of Conflict by Lawrence James
The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: a History of Conflict

Lawrence James

The Lion and the Dragon: Britain and China: a History of Conflict

Lawrence James

256 pages first pub 2023 (editions)

nonfiction history
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Napoleon warned 'Let China sleep; when she wakes, she will shake the world'. Lawrence James's magisterial history analyses the relationship between Britain and China between the beginning of the Opium Wars in 1839 and the transfer of power in Hong...

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