CBR11 Bingo: True Story I’m a pretty big history buff, but my familiarity is pretty constrained to the US and Europe. Unsurprising, given that I’m a white American. That’s what we’re taught in school, and that’s what we’re exposed to as a culture. But I’m also a pretty big political junkie. So China is a pretty important subject that I don’t know nearly enough about. Going into this, I knew that the Opium Wars were a thing. I knew that Great Britain sought inroads into […]
As good as this book was, I spent the whole time wanting to read something else.
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt