China : An Epic Novel
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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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Rutherfurd Edward
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Hodder and Stoughton
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