Imperial Twilight
Subtitle: the Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
By: Stephen R. Platt
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Knopf; Alfred A. Knopf
Published: 2018
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 556
ISBN-13: 9780307961730
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Foreign relations; History
Description: 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.
Notes: "A Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references and index.