UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1984 · Q5(c) · 20 marks
‘The Treaty of Nanking is the basic act in the imposing but unstable structure of international relations which governed China for a hundred years.’
- Chapter
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Topic
- China and Western Imperialism
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