Virgin widows /

Things just keep getting better and better. ... Well, don't they? If you are a woman and you live in China, to answer this question you will need not only to look around you but to look back, to see not just how things are now but how they once were. China has traveled a long and torturous road...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Gu, Hua
Autres auteurs: Goldblatt, Howard, 1939-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Chinois
Publié: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press ©1996.
Collection:Fiction from modern China.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqzn8
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
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  • 2 1983
  • 3 The reign of the great Qing emperor Guangxu. Once again Love Goose Shoals at the base of Celestial Peak.
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  • 13 The year, 1908. The great Qing emperor Guangxu has died. Pu Yi, three-year-old heir to the throne, is carried into the throne room to be coronated as the last emperor of a line that has run continuously for more than two thousand years.
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  • Translator's Postscript.