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Daily Life for the Common People of China

by Ronald Suleski

Society & culture: general

In this book Ronald Suleski introduces a new category of source material, ''chaoben'' ??, for understanding the lives of China?s semi-literate masses before 1950. It links the documents now flooding the antiques markets in China, with the hopes and fears of China?s people at the end of the pre-modern era.

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Book data: Open Library