The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams, and the Making of Modern China - Paperback
by Julia Lovell
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Abrams PressISBN-13:9781468311730ISBN-10:1468311735UPC:9781468311730Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Asia, EuropeBook Topic:China, Great BritainAward:2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature AwardSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.49Product ID:SCHVHBXS93
An engaging, highly readable, character-driven account of the war that transformed China, and which continues to loom large over modern Chinese history.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Abrams PressISBN-13:9781468311730ISBN-10:1468311735UPC:9781468311730Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Wars & Conflicts, Asia, EuropeBook Topic:China, Great BritainAward:2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature AwardSize:8.98 x 5.98 x 1.50 inchesWeight:1.49Product ID:SCHVHBXS93
Lovell, Julia: - Julia Lovell is an author, translator, and academic. She is the author of the widely acclaimed The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC-AD 2000, which was published in eighteen countries. She has translated many key Chinese works into English, including Lust, Caution by Eileen Chang, The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun, and Serve the People by Yan Lianke. She is a lecturer in modern Chinese history and literature at the University of London and writes for the Guardian, The Times, the Economist, and the Times Literary Supplement. She spends a large part of the year in China with her family.
Publisher: Abrams Press
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🏆 2012 Cundill Prize Finalist - Historical Literature Award
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