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Speaking of Yangzhou : a Chinese city, 1550-1850 / Antonia Finnane.

By: Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 236.Publication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2004.Description: xix, 453 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0674013921 (alk. paper)
  • 9780674013926 (alk. paper)
Other title:
  • Yangzhou
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Speaking of Yangzhou.DDC classification:
  • 951/.136 22
LOC classification:
  • DS797.56.Y374 F56 2004
Summary: This is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era and of the meanings that accrued to Yangzhou.
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Books Books The Anton Library of Chinese Studies General Stacks DS797.56.Y374 F56 2004 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Library copy autographed by author. TBC00004050

Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-427) and index.

This is in some ways a biography of a city that acquired a personality, even a gender, and became an actor in its own history. The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era and of the meanings that accrued to Yangzhou.

Library copy autographed by author.

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