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Changing Stories in the Chinese World

by Mark Elvin
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Synopsis

This is an imaginative evocation and analysis—through the medium of translations (the author’s own) of once popular but now forgotten literature—of the variety of “stories” in terms of which the Chinese have interpreted their lives since the early years of the 19th century.

About the Author, Mark Elvin

Mark Elvin is Professor of Chinese History at the Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, and the author of The Pattern of the Chinese Past (Stanford, 1973).

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Book Details

Published
December 1, 1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780804730907

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