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

byStephen Platt

Imperial Twilight is Stephen Platt's historical account of the Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age. The book builds its explanation through key episodes, competing interests, and the setting supplied by the wider field of history. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Imperial Twilight leaves readers with key context and a clear view of the human stakes involved. The emphasis stays on explanation, context, and the lived consequences behind the larger argument.

Publisher

Vintage

Publication date

Apr 23, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

592

ISBN

9780345803023