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Pages: 296
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Type: BOOK - Published: 1977 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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Language: en
Pages: 369
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-02-15 - Publisher: Harvard University Press
In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with t
Language: en
Pages: 224
Pages: 224
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-21 - Publisher: Routledge
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Language: en
Pages: 609
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