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A floating Chinaman : fantasy and failure across the Pacific /

"A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. Tsiang, a Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hsu, Hua, 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Introduction: What means the world to you? -- Theoretical China -- Naive melody -- Four hundred million customers -- Pink flag -- Down and out in New York City -- Pacific crossings -- Too big to fail -- Conclusion: The floaters. 
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