Empires on the Pacific
Subtitle: World War II and the Struggle for the Mastery of Asia
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: December 24, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780465085767
First sentence: Early September, 1793, a meeting took place that would prove to be the first great collision of East and West, King George III had commissioned George, Lord Macartney, a British diplomat, and his entourage, to create an embassy in China, expand British trade in the country, and introduce Christianity into the Middle Kingdom.