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In this beautifully crafted study of one emblematic life, Harrison addresses large themes in Chinese history while conveying with great immedlacy the textures and rhythms of everyday life in the countryside in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Liu Dapeng was a provincial degree-holder who never held government office. Through the story of his family, the author illustrates the declins of the countryside in relation to the cities as a result of modernization and the transformation of Confucian ideology as a result of these changes. Based on nearly 400 volumes of Liu's diary and other writings, the book illustrates what it was like to study in an academy and to be a schoolteacher, the pressures of changing family relationships, the daily grind of work in industry and agriculture, people's experience with government, and life under the Japanese occupation.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Man Awakened from Dreams
• Author: Henrietta Harrison
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• EAN: 9780804750691
• ISBN: 0804750696
• ID: 04717851
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 342 g
• Dimensions: 225 × 147 × 13 mm
• Date of publishing: 30. January 2005

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