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Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China.

Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brady, Anne-Marie
Otros Autores: Brown, Douglas
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Colección:Chinese worlds.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Republican China attracted an uncommon diversity of foreign interests, groups, and individuals, which included missionaries, adventurers, diplomats, academics, humanitarians and refugees, as well as hedonists and tourists. By exploring the diverse nature of foreign activities in Republican China, this book complicates the dominant narratives of the imperialistic foreigner and Chinese victim, and moves beyond the depiction of foreigners as privileged and the Chinese as simply weak. The spaces and relationships examined in the essays in this volume reveal a complex series of interactions between.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (289 pages)
ISBN:9781136252501
1136252509