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• Title:Imperial twilight : the opium war and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt.
  
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• Author/Creator:Platt, Stephen R., author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:Temporarily shelved at KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    c.1  Shelved at WITHDRAWN
    
  • Call Number: DS757.5 .P55 2018
    
  • Number of Items:2
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:China--History--Opium War, 1840-1842.
  China--History--19th century.
  China--Foreign relations--19th century.
  
• Genre/Form:Nonfiction.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  
• 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.
  
• Notes:"A Borzoi book."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780307961730 hardcover
  0307961737 hardcover
  9780345803023 paperback
  0345803027 paperback
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Gracious Spring
  ch. 1 Time of Wonder
  ch. 2 Black Wind
  ch. 3 Edge of the World
  ch. 4 Sea and Land
  ch. 5 Points of Entry
  ch. 6 Hidden Shoals
  pt. II Milk of Paradise
  ch. 7 Boom Times
  ch. 8 Fire and Smoke
  ch. 9 Freedom
  ch. 10 Darkening Turn
  ch. 11 Means of Solution
  ch. 12 Last Honest Man
  pt. III Blood-Ravenous Autumn
  ch. 13 Showdown
  ch. 14 Will and Destiny
  ch. 15 Aftermath.