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Imperial Twilight

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Publisher
Atlantic Books
Published
2019
  • Foreign relations
  • History
  • China
  • Opium War
  • Qing Dynasty
  • New York Times reviewed
  • China, politics and government
  • China, commerce

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.