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Homesickness

Culture, Contagion, and National Transformation in Modern China

Carlos Rojas

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$52.50 • £42.95 • €47.50

ISBN 9780674743946

Publication Date: 04/06/2015

352 pages

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

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Carlos Rojas is Associate Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Women’s Studies, and Arts of the Moving Image at Duke University.

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