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Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age Cover Image Book Book

Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age

Platt, Stephen R. (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780307961730
  • ISBN: 0307961737
  • ISBN: 9780345803023
  • ISBN: 0345803027
  • ISBN: 9780307961747
  • Physical Description: print
    xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Contents / Notes

General Note:
"A Borzoi book."
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Subject: Opium War (China : 1840-1842)
China History Opium War, 1840-1842
China History 19th century
China Foreign relations 19th century
HISTORY Asia China
HISTORY Military Wars & Conflicts (Other)
HISTORY Modern 19th Century
Diplomatic relations
China
Qingdynastie
Opiumkrieg
China
Großbritannien
Westmächte
Genre: Nonfiction.
History.
Nonfiction.

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Azalea Regional Library System:
      Monroe-Walton County Library 		951.033 PLA ( Send Text)
 31056008581105 ADULT Available
Flint River Regional Library System:
      Peachtree City Library 		951.033 PLATT ( Send Text)
 31022009255354 ADULT Available
Marshes of Glynn Libraries:
      St. Simons Island Public Library 		NON FIC 951.033 PLA ( Send Text)
 31061000361043 Stacks Available
Northwest Georgia Regional Library:
      Dalton-Whitfield Library 		951 PLATT, STEPHEN ( Send Text)
 31038000881469 DW-NONFIC Available
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      Rome-Floyd County Library 		951.033 PLATT ( Send Text)
 31047003180613 NONFIC Available
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