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<正>In Imperial Twilight,historian Stephen Platt shows how flawed decisions led to full-blown conflict between two mighty trading partners裴士锋全新视角解读鸦片战争Few events in modern Chinese history come loaded with as much symbolic baggage as the First Opium War of 1839-1842.For many historians in the People’s Republic,the conflict marks the beginning of China’s modern era.Generations of Chinese schoolchildren are taught how the Treaty of Nanjing,signed in