Jim Reviews: Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age – Stephen Platt
In tandem with my reading of White Mirror, I’ve also been listening to Imperial Twilight. I was vaguely aware that there was an Opium War and that it basically amounted to the British declaring war on China to force them to buy drugs from their colony in India. And that is basically what happened but … Continue reading Jim Reviews: Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age – Stephen Platt
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