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192 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140051216
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 29 March 1979
Description
"Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl." (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth centu...
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192 pages • first pub 1978 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780140051216
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication date: 29 March 1979
Description
"Spence shows himself at once historian, detective, and artist. . . . He makes history howl." (The New Republic) Award-winning author Jonathan D. Spence paints a vivid picture of an obscure place and time: provincial China in the seventeenth centu...