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

Stephen R. Platt with Mark Deakins (Narrator)

17 hours, 50 minutes first pub 2018 (editions) user-added

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. As one of the most potent turning points in the...

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