Book 2019
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.