China's Last Moments of Imperial Splendor
The reign of the Qianlong Emperor
Some people in China call it the “century of humiliation” — a period when China’s power, status, and sense of itself crumbled. Between the 1840s and the 1940s, China suffered a terrible series of calamities, everything from a wave of opium addiction to several horrific civil wars to incursion by foreign imperialists to an invasion by Japan.
The century …
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