The Grounding of Cosmopolitans: Merchants and Local Cultures in Guangdong

Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 191-230

  Siu, Helen F ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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