China and Japan

Facing History

Ezra F. Vogel

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$39.95 • £31.95 • €36.00

ISBN 9780674916579

Publication Date: 07/30/2019

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536 pages

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

Belknap Press

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Ezra F. Vogel is the author of Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize, and of the international bestseller Japan as Number One. He was Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard University.

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