UPSC History Optional · Paper II · 1987 · Q5(a) · 20 marks
‘By 1861, China may be said to have been fully though grudgingly opened to the Westerner.’
- Chapter
- Imperialism and Colonialism
- Topic
- China and Western Imperialism
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