Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- ISBN-10
- 0345803027
- ISBN-13
- 9780345803023
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 556
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2018
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Stephen R. Platt
Description
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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