A Chinese Pioneer Family

A Chinese Pioneer Family
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9781400886418
ISBN-13 : 1400886414
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Book Synopsis A Chinese Pioneer Family by : Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill

Download or read book A Chinese Pioneer Family written by Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an absorbing account of a frontier family's rise to local eminence, from its pioneer days in eighteenth-century Taiwan through its attainment of gentry status there a century later, Johanna Meskill presents not just a family history but a social history of late imperial China as well. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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