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UNINA9910452665303321 |
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Titolo |
The human tradition in modern China / / edited by Kenneth J. Hammond and Kristin Stapleton |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2008] |
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©2008 |
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ISBN |
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0-7425-5466-X |
1-4616-4436-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (215 p.) |
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Collana |
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Human tradition around the world |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Electronic books. |
China Biography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Includes bibliographic references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Li Shizhen: early modern scientist / Kenneth J. Hammond -- Amazon, artist, and adventurer: a courtesan in late imperial China / Daria Berg -- Zou Boqi on vision and photography in nineteenth-century China / Oliver Moore -- Ho Kai: a Chinese reformer in colonial Hong Kong / John Carroll -- Der Ling: Manchu princess, cultural advisor, and author / Shuo Wang -- Li Chenggan: patriot, populist, and factory patriarch / Joshua H. Howard -- The Beijing University students in the May Fourth era: a collective biography / Fabio Lanza -- The reluctant mendicant / Hugh Shapiro -- Hu Lanqi: rebellious woman, revolutionary soldier, discarded heroine, triumphant Survivor / Kristin Stapleton -- Zhao Ruiqin: a peasant woman in Gansu and domestic worker in Beijing / Pan Yihong. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through compelling biographies of a wide range of historical figures, this engaging text presents a panorama of modern Chinese history that illustrates the great social and political changes that have occurred over the past 500 years. Through the lives of both the famous and the obscure, the contributors explore such enduring themes of the flexibility of the definition of 'Chinese' in an era of imperialism and revolution, the tremendous transformations in gender relations, and the wide gap between the lives of urban and rural Chinese. Richly |
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researched, these biographies are written in an acce |
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