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A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895
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Publishing Details
Full Title:
A Chinese Pioneer Family: The Lins of Wu-feng, Taiwan, 1729-1895
Contributors:
By (Author) Johanna Margarete Menzel Meskill
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
30th May 2017
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
929.2095
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
394
Dimensions:
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
Weight:
369g
Description
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 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library
