“A High Place Is No Better Than a Low Place”: The City in the Making of Modern China

Becoming Chinese: Passages to Modernity and Beyond

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 98-136

  Strand, David ^a  

^a DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

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