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"This is surely the warmest, most human document that has ever come out of China... The report of her life and labors has the lasting symbolic quality of literature."-The American Journal of Sociology "No recent book has better portrayed the common man in China... This short autobiography is right in description of Chinese Social customs... In writing this book, Ida Pruitt has rendered a great service to the Chinese people. For she has accomplished ore than sociologists and novelists in their treatises and fiction can do. She has written a personal story through which the spirit of the common people of China is vividly and humanly revealed."-Pacific Affairs "This book opens a window into the Chinese world. Although the story is of one Chinese woman, the events of her life reach out into the experiences of many other people. They are a part of that wider social and imaginary world from which the Chinese draw meaning to their life."-The Far Eastern Quarterly

A Daughter of Han

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      Publisher: Stanford University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/06/1945
      ISBN13: 9780804706063, 978-0804706063
      ISBN10: 0804706069
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      "This is surely the warmest, most human document that has ever come out of China... The report of her life and labors has the lasting symbolic quality of literature."-The American Journal of Sociology "No recent book has better portrayed the common man in China... This short autobiography is right in description of Chinese Social customs... In writing this book, Ida Pruitt has rendered a great service to the Chinese people. For she has accomplished ore than sociologists and novelists in their treatises and fiction can do. She has written a personal story through which the spirit of the common people of China is vividly and humanly revealed."-Pacific Affairs "This book opens a window into the Chinese world. Although the story is of one Chinese woman, the events of her life reach out into the experiences of many other people. They are a part of that wider social and imaginary world from which the Chinese draw meaning to their life."-The Far Eastern Quarterly

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