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Detailed essays by sixteen outstanding China experts explore such topics as modes of self-expression in Chinese culture, the Chinese educational scene and work place, and the values underlying the performing arts in modern China
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The China Difference: A Portrait of Life Today Inside the Country of One Billion
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Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 1980
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China Difference
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THE CHINA DIFFERENCE : Portrait of Life Today Inside the Country of One Billion
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Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition, First Printing. Text/New & Bright. Illustrated softcover/Sound w/faint creasing & rubs to edges, surfaces. 1980 printing. Anthology of 15 essays. Editor, Australian-born American historian Ross Terrill (1938 - 2024), Associate in Research at the Fairbank Center, known for his studies on China. Terrill describes this collection as a "banquet of fifteen courses". 1980 was when China's population approached one billion (2013 tally, at 1,359,960,000). Cross-sectional cultural portrait of an enigmatic world order. Contributing essays include those from Orville Schell, John King Fairbank, Holmes Welch, among others. Seller Inventory # 013457