THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'Bravo; this is a big, complex and
utterly involving portrait of 19th-century China' THE TIMES The
internationally bestselling author portrays the great clash of East
and West in his new epic: China China in the nineteenth century: a
proud and ancient empire forbidden to foreigners. The West desires
Chinese tea above all other things but lacks the silver to buy it.
Instead, western adventurers resort to smuggling opium in exchange.
The Qing Emperor will not allow his people to sink into addiction.
Viceroy Lin is sent to the epicentre of the opium trade, Canton, to
stop it. The Opium Wars begin - heralding a period of bloody
military defeats, reparations, and one-sided treaties which will
become known as the Century of Humiliation. From Hong Kong to
Beijing to the Great Wall, from the exotic wonders of the Summer
Palace and the Forbidden City, to squalid village huts, the
dramatic struggle rages across the Celestial Kingdom. This is the
story of the Chinese people, high and low, and the Westerners who
came to exploit the riches of their ancient land and culture. We
meet a young village wife struggling with the rigid traditions of
her people, Manchu empresses and warriors, powerful eunuchs,
fanatical Taiping and Boxer Rebels, savvy Chinese pirates, artists,
concubines, scoundrels and heroes, well-intentioned missionaries
and the rapacious merchants, diplomats and soldiers of the West.
Fortunes will rise and fall, loves will be gained and lost. This is
an unforgettable tale told from both sides of the divide. The clash
of worldviews, of culture and heritage, is shown in a kaleidoscope
of jaw-dropping set pieces. China is a feat of the imagination that
will enthral, instruct and excite, and show us how things once
were, and how the turmoil of the nineteenth century led to modern
China's revolution and rebirth.
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