The dragon wakes China and the West, 1793-1911
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| Formato: | Libro |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Harmondsworth :
Penguin Books
1984
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009817436306719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Conté: pt. I. Ambassadors bearing tribute. Barbarians from the Western ocean
- The son of heaven
- Failure of a mission
- Lord Amherst and the kotow
- pt. II. Traders in foreign dirt. Merchants and mandarins
- The Napier fizzle
- The offence of Captain Elliot
- The opium destroyed
- The flag insulted
- The empire at war
- The empire in defeat
- pt. III. Rebels and innocents. 'The true lord of China'
- The Arrow affair
- 'The massacre of the innocents'
- At the Taku forts
- The burning of the palace
- The last of the Taipings
- pt. IV. Aggressors and reformers. Slicing up the melon
- Righteous harmony boxing
- The siege of the legations
- Retribution
- The society of sworn confederates.
