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

by Stephen Platt

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 country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put be

Publisher

Vintage

Publication date

Apr 23, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

592

ISBN

9780345803023