Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt.
Platt, Stephen R., author.
2018
DS757.5 .P55 2018 (Mapit)
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Title
Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt.
Author
Platt, Stephen R., author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780307961730 (hardcover)
0307961737 (hardcover)
9780345803023 (paperback)
0345803027 (paperback)
9780307961747
Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Language
English
Description
xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Call Number
DS757.5 .P55 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification
951/.033
Summary
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.
Note
"A Borzoi book."
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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