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Book Title: Personal Voices: Chinese Women In The 1980As
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Emily Honig, Gail Hershatter
Publication Name: Personal Voices : Chinese Women in the 1980's
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 1988
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Number of Pages: 400 Pages
