{"product_id":"2026100007855-secondhand-from-opium-war-to-liberation","title":"From Opium War To Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good. Jacket: No dust jacket - cloth\/board in good condition. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew nations have endured a century of humiliation as dramatic and consequential as China's, and Israel Epstein's From Opium War to Liberation chronicles that turbulent arc with the precision of a journalist and the passion of a witness. Beginning with the catastrophic Opium Wars of the mid-nineteenth century — in which Western imperial powers forcibly opened China to trade and subjugation — the narrative traces the long, agonising struggle of the Chinese people through foreign exploitation, warlordism, and civil war, arriving at the Communist victory of 1949 that Epstein presents as an act of national self-reclamation.\n\nEpstein, a Polish-born journalist who spent much of his life in China and eventually became a Chinese citizen, writes from a position of deep ideological commitment and firsthand experience, lending the work an urgency rarely found in purely academic histories. His prose is direct and polemical, structured to argue that liberation was not merely a political event but the inevitable culmination of over a hundred years of popular resistance. For readers seeking to understand the revolutionary foundations of modern China — and the worldview that continues to shape it — this volume remains a vital and provocative primary source.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49130630381787,"sku":"2026100007855-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/69798408-ffdb-44ba-8ec5-d898375d42a4.png?v=1786588014","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100007855-secondhand-from-opium-war-to-liberation","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}