@article{855714, recid = {855714}, author = {Platt, Stephen R.,}, title = {Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age /}, pages = {xxviii, 556 pages :}, note = {"A Borzoi book."}, abstract = {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.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/855714}, }