As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an

As China becomes a pre-eminent world power again in the twenty-first century, this book uncovers Britain's long relationship with the country and its people.

Describes the expansion and transformation of China's economic relations with Great Britain, when China was forced to agree to a treaty settlement to open a lar