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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1047648412 Title: Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age Author: Stephen R Platt Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, 2019. ©2018 ISBN/ISSN: 0345803027 9780345803023 OCLC:1047648412

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Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age

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Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age

Author:	Stephen R Platt
Publisher:	New York : Vintage Books, 2019. ©2018
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : First Vintage Books editionView all editions and formats
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.
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Subjects	China -- History -- Opium War, 1840-1842. China -- History -- 19th century. China -- Foreign relations -- 19th century. View all subjects
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Genre/Form:	History Nonfiction
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Stephen R Platt Find more information about:
ISBN:	0345803027 9780345803023
OCLC Number:	1047648412
Description:	xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Contents:	pt. I. Gracious spring. A time of 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.
Other Titles:	Opium war and the end of China's last golden age
Responsibility:	Stephen R. Platt.

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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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