Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China - Frank Dikotter - Books - Columbia University Press - 9780231141161 - March 27, 2007
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Exotic Commodities: Modern Objects and Everyday Life in China


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Charts the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. This volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era.


384 pages, 97 illus.

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released March 27, 2007
Original release date 2020
ISBN13 9780231141161
Publishers Columbia University Press
Pages 384
Dimensions 254 × 193 × 30 mm   ·   1.47 kg
Language English  

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