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Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China'sLast Golden Age
By Platt, Stephen R.
- ISBN
- 9780307961730 9780307961747
- Publisher
- Knopf.
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Library Journal
Starred Review on April 1, 2018 | Social Sciences
This book's final chapter provides only a brief description of the course of the First Opium War (1839–42). Instead, Platt (Univ. of Massachusetts Amherst; Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom) focuses the bulk of this volume on painting a vivid picture of the history of relations between Britain and China from the mid-18th century up to the outbreak of the war. Readers will find a variet...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
