- Foreign relations, History, China, Opium War
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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Earnest, classical in form, grave and cool.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Stephen R. Platt
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 560
- Publisher
- Vintage, Atlantic Books, Limited, Atlantic Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781786494870
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