Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

Stephen R. Platt

Bog | Engelsk

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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 coun…