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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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese cinese |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press
©1996.
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| Serie: | Fiction from modern China.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt6wqzn8 |
Sommario:
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- 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.