Blundering into War
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
by Stephen R. Platt
June 6, 2019 issue
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Kenneth Pomeranz is University Professor of Modern Chinese History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of a Modern World Economy. (June 2019)
Blundering into War
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China’s Last Golden Age
by Stephen R. Platt
June 6, 2019 issue
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