01421cam a2200349 i 4500 360434380 TxGeo 20181015120000.0 170614s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017028172 9780307961730 hbk. 0307961737 hbk. (OCoLC)1034014324 TxGeo rda Platt, Stephen R. Imperial twilight : the Opium War and the end of China's last golden age / Stephen R. Platt. Opium War and the end of China's last golden age. First edition. New York, NY : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018. xxviii, 556 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "A Borzoi book.". Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-527) and index. 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. 20181113. China History Opium War, 1840-1842. China History 19th century. China Foreign relations 19th century. QS5