Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949

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Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949

"Explores intimate accounts of lower-class women's struggles with poverty, deprivation, and marital strife in wartime Beijing between 1936 and 1945, revealing an urban underworld built on an informal economy and conducted primarily through neighborhood networks"--

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English
Pages
380

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Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Sep 28, 2015, Harvard University Asia Center
hardcover in English

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Source title: Runaway Wives, Urban Crimes, and Survival Tactics in Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

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Library of Congress
HQ1770.B36 M3 2015, HQ1770.B36M3 2015

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Number of pages
380

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27522824M
ISBN 10
0674088387
ISBN 13
9780674088382
LCCN
2015005291
OCLC/WorldCat
904801141
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0674088387

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Work ID
OL20317467W

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