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Author Rojas, Carlos, 1970- author.

Title Homesickness : culture, contagion, and national transformation in modern China / Carlos Rojas
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 333 pages)
Contents Reform -- Rebellion -- Rebirth -- Revolution -- Information -- Capital -- Labor -- Membranes
Summary Based on an understanding of "home-sickness" as the alienation caused by being too close to home, rather than too far away. Views this "sickness" as a precondition for health, as portrayed by writers in China, Greater China, and the diaspora from late Imperial to contemporary times
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Print version record
Subject National characteristics, Chinese.
Chinese.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 20th Century.
Chinese
Civilization
National characteristics, Chinese
SUBJECT China -- Civilization -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85023997
China -- Civilization -- 21st century
Subject China
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2014042522
ISBN 9780674286955
0674286952