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Item Details
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EXOTIC COMMODITIES
MODERN OBJECTS AND EVERYDAY LIFE IN CHINA |
| By: |
Frank Dikotter |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£58.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0231141165 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780231141161 |
| Publisher: |
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 January, 1900 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
Charts the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. This volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. |
| Illustrations: |
97 illus. |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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