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Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age
- Title
- Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt.
- Author
- Platt, Stephen R.
- Publication
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- ©2018
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Details
- Description
- xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps; 25 cm
- 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.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Borzoi book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. I. Gracious spring. A time to 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-5791
- ISBN
- 9780307961730
- 0307961737
- 9780345803023
- 0345803027
- LCCN
- 2017028172
- OCLC
- 991536004
- Author
- Platt, Stephen R., author.
- Title
- Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt.
- Publisher
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-5791