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The A to Z of the Chinese Cultural Revolution: 83
Author(s): Guo Jian (Author)
- Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
- Publication Date: 15 Sept. 2009
- Language: English
- Print length: 504 pages
- ISBN-10: 0810868709
- ISBN-13: 9780810868700
Book Description
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Yongyi Song is on the library faculty of California State University, Los Angeles. He is editor-in-chief of the 150-million-word Chinese Political Campaigns Database (published by Harvard University and Chinese University of Hong Kong) and has published extensively on modern Chinese history.
Yuan Zhou is Curator for the East Asian Library of the University of Chicago. His broad areas of research and publication range from various fields in library and information science to modern Chinese history.
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