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Underlying Nanjing’s 1930s policies was a concern for the capital’s image—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse; he puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible.

Useless to the State

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      Publisher: Harvard University, Asia Center
      Publication Date: 01/03/2006
      ISBN13: 9780674021327, 978-0674021327
      ISBN10: 0674021320
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      Asian history Social and cultural history

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      Book Synopsis
      Underlying Nanjing’s 1930s policies was a concern for the capital’s image—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse; he puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible.

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