TY  - BOOK
AU  - Platt,Stephen R.
TI  - Imperial twilight: the opium war and the end of China's last golden age 
SN  - 9780307961730
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - China
KW  - History
KW  - Opium War, 1840-1842
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Foreign relations
N1  - "A Borzoi book."; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - 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
ER  -