- Заглавие:
Imperial Twilight
- Автор:
Platt Stephen R.
- Место издания:
New York
- Издатель:
Alfred A. Knopf
- Дата издания:
2018
- Объём:
xxviii, 556 p.
- Сведения о библиографии:
Bibliogr.: p. 511–527
- ISBN:
9780307961730
- Сведения о содержании:
Pt. I. Gracious spring. A time of wonder ; Black wind ; The edge of the world ; Sea and land ; Points of entry ; Hidden shoals ; Pt. II. The milk of paradise. Boom times ; Fire and smoke ; Freedom ; A darkening turn ; Means of solution ; The last honest man ; Pt. III. Blood-ravenous autumn. Showdown ; Will and destiny ; Aftermath ; Houqua and Forbes
- Аннотация:
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.
- Язык текста:
Английский
Библиографический источник
Imperial Twilight
The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age / Stephen R. Platt