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Governing the Dead : Martyrs, Memorials, and Necrocitizenship in Modern China /

"Twenty to thirty million Chinese, military and civilian, lost their lives during the fall of the empire, internecine wars, foreign invasion, and natural disasters in the first half of the twentieth century. How did China emerge so quickly from the wreckages of war into a powerful state, suppor...

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Autor principal: Vu, Linh D., 1985- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press 2021
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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