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Harvard East Asian Monographs 268

The Beauty and the Book

Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China

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$49.95 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674021464

Publication Date: 04/30/2006

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400 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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