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Foreign devils in the Flowery Kingdom
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Foreign devils in the Flowery Kingdom

by Carl Crow, Paul French

This autobiography recounts more than twenty-five years spent in Shanghai during the early twentieth century. It examines the business and social interactions between Eastern and Western cultures during the inter-war period in China.

Accession 21421 ISBN 9789889963330 Publisher Publisher not identified
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