Xiang Lake: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life

by R. Keith Schoppa and Keith R. Schoppa

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300042531
• ISBN13: 9780300042535
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Tracking local Chinese life over 9 centuries

This book, originally published by Yale University Press, is indeed out of print, but is an excellent study in the lives of local Chinese elites and peasants. Professor Schoppa spans the centuries by describing in an anecdotal style, a historical picture of life around Xiang Lake, a reservoir in Zhejiang province. Professor Schoppa researched scores of volumes and consulted many scholars and historians in China to write this book. I personally know the author, and consider him an expert in the field of East Asian Studies.