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Sherman Cochran & Andrew Hsieh
Lius of Shanghai [EPUB ebook]

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From the Sino-Japanese War to the Communist Revolution, a cache of letters from one of China s prominent families, the Lius of Shanghai, sheds light on a tumultuous era. Sherman Cochran and Andrew Hsieh show how the family confronted war, civil unrest, and social upheaval, and how in the midst of it all they built a vast business empire.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 472 ● ISBN 9780674073845 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2664516 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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