Ebook: Imperial twilight: the Opium War and the end of China's last golden age
Author: Platt Stephen R
- Tags: Diplomatic relations, HISTORY / Asia / China, Opiumkrieg, Qingdynastie, Nonfiction, Electronic books, History, China -- History -- Opium War 1840-1842, China -- History -- 19th century, China -- Foreign relations -- 19th century, China, Großbritannien, Westmächte
- Year: 2018
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: China;Großbritannien;Westmächte
- Edition: First edition
- Language: English
- epub
Pt. I. Gracious spring. A time of 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.;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.
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