Imperial Twilight : : the Opium war and the end of China's Last Golden age
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"A Borzoi book."
Pt. I. Gracious spring. A time to wonder -- Black wind -- The edge of the world -- Sea and land -- Points of entry -- Hidden shoals -- pt. II. The milk of paradise. Boom times -- Fire and smoke -- Freedom -- A darkening turn -- Means of solution -- The last honest man -- pt. III. Blood-ravenous autumn. Showdown -- Will and destiny -- Aftermath -- Houqua and Forbes.
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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
Year Published: 2018
Description: xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307961730
0307961737
9780345803023
0345803027
SUBJECTS
China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842.
China -- History -- 19th century.
China -- Foreign relations -- 19th century.
Nonfiction.