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Imperial Twilight
Stephen R. Platt · 2018 · 560 pages
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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.
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