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FOUNDATIONS OF LITERACY IN PREMODERN CHINA: A NEW STUDY OF BOOK CULTURE IN THE QING AND REPUBLICAN PERIODS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

Yasushi Oki
Affiliation:
The University of Tokyo E-mail oki@ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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