Culture, Power, and the State: Rural North China, 1900-1942
โ Scribed by Prasenjit Duara
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 340
- Edition
- First Edition
- Category
- Library
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