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The Great Wall: China Against the World 1000 BC - 2000 AD by Julia Lovell
$21.50 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
Secondhand. This book looks behind the modern mythology of the Great Wall to uncover a 3000-year history far more fragmented and far less straightforwardly illustrious than its crowds of visitors imagine.The story of the Wall winds through that of the Chinese state and of the frontier policy that defin ...Show more
The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of China by Julia Lovell
$22.50 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. In the 1800s, Britain was making a mint selling Indian opium to China. In return, they were buying tea, silks and ceramics. When eventually China decided that the drug trade was ruining her people, the British declared war, declaring China 'protectionist', 'backwards-looking' and 'superstit ...Show more
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