Useless to the State: "Social Problems" and Social Engineering in Nationalist Nanjing, 1927-1937 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by ZLipkin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $54.22

  In 1911, when a professor took his students to tour Nanjing's shantytowns, one student was grateful as his eyes had been opened to the poverty in his own city. Years later, when another professor showed his students a film on the poor quarters of Nanjing, they demanded his expulsion. This book explores the reasons for these different reactions.