Brings together brief biographies of 100 women and men whose activities in the 19th century laid the foundations of modern China and the country’s transition from dynastic empire to republic... Zobraziť viac
In October 1839, Britain entered the first Opium War with China. Its brutality notwithstanding, the conflict was also threaded with tragicomedy:with Victorian hypocrisy, bureaucratic fumblings, military missteps, political opportunism and collaboration... Zobraziť viac
