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Product Description: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China? How did peasants transform themselves into urbanites? How did the citizens of Shanghai cope with the epic upheavals--revolution, war, and again revolution--that shook their lives? Even after decades of scholarship devoted to modern Chinese history, our understanding of the daily lives of the common people of China remains sketchy and incomplete...read more
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9780520215641 | Univ of California Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China?

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9780520243781 | Univ of California Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: How did ordinary people live through the extraordinary changes that have swept across modern China?

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Product Description: This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today. Generously illustrated, the book brings to life the concepts and practices of mendicancy including organized begging, state and society relations as reflected in the issues of poverty, public opinions of beggars and various factors that contribute to almsgiving, the role of gender in begging, and street people and Communist politics...read more
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9780804751483 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 6, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This is a rich and comprehensive study of beggars’ culture and the institution of mendicancy in China from late imperial times to the mid-twentieth century, with a glance at the resurgence of beggars in China today.

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Product Description: China's 1911 Revolution ended both the rule of the 267-year-old Manchu Qing dynasty and the more than 2,000-year-old imperial system, establishing Asia's first, if not lasting, republic. Because war correspondence was not an established profession in China and the camera was a rare apparatus in Chinese life at the time, photographs of the revolution are rare...read more
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9780295989402 | Univ of Washington Pr, January 30, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: China's 1911 Revolution ended both the rule of the 267-year-old Manchu Qing dynasty and the more than 2,000-year-old imperial system, establishing Asia's first, if not lasting, republic.

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