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Pages: 176
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Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04 - Publisher: ThingsAsian Press

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When Joshua Samuel Brown first stepped out of the passenger terminal at Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in Taiwan, he was a stranger in a humid land with
Vignettes from the Late Ming
Language: en
Pages: 191
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Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-07-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press

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This anthology presents seventy translated and annotated short essays, or hsiao-p’in, by fourteen well-known sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese writer
One China, Many Taiwans
Language: en
Pages: 118
Authors: Ian Rowen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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One China, Many Taiwans shows how tourism performs and transforms territory. In 2008, as the People's Republic of China pointed over a thousand missiles across
From the Old Country
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Lihe Zhong
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-02-11 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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Though he lived mostly in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe (1915–1960) spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities,
A Son of Taiwan
Language: en
Pages:
Authors: Howard Goldblatt
Categories: Short stories, Chinese
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"On February 28, 1947, a widow selling cigarettes on the street in Taipei was brutally beaten by government agents searching for contraband cigarettes. When a c