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Imperial Twilight

The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age

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Imperial Twilight

Auteur(s): Stephen R. Platt
Narrateur(s): Mark Deakins
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 As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War.

As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate. Asie Guerres et conflits Militaire Moderne Monde XIXe siècle Chine Guerre Impérialisme Japon impérial Capitalisme Ancient China
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I had no idea the extents of British involvement in Chinese politics. This is also a great history of China from the 15th to 19th century, from empirial politics (the reasons behind the decline of the Empire) to the culture of the common Chinese citizen. You can infer the connections of the events in this book to the later Taiping Revolution and Communist Revolution, what an eye opener!

Excellently engaging and fascinating

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Narration is great.

The book is fantastic. Exactly what I was looking for on this topic. Both good history but also a good drama. The author explains the characters and reads from their private journals and correspondence, giving you a real feel for who the actors in this part of history were.

Wonderful book great narrator

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Well written overall and easy to follow. This is a book about the circumstances leading up the opium war. It dives into the people who were at the heart of the interface between the China and the west. It does not discuss in any detail the fighting itself, the living conditions of the people in this place at this time any of the details around the consumption of opium. I felt the last 3rd of the book kind of rushed to the end and glossed over what I was expecting to be the climax: the actual war itself. I now have to go and use wikipedia to learn that part of the story.

Well written but not the story I was hoping for

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