Imperial TwilightFinancial Times' best history books of the year Sunday Times' best history books of the year In 1839 Britain embarked on the first of its wars with China, sealing the fate of the most prosperous and powerful empire in Asia, if not the world. Motivated by drug profiteering and free trade interests, the Opium War helped shape the China we know today, sparking the eventual fall of the Qing dynasty and the rise of nationalism and communism in the
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