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A Tender Voyage is the first full-length study of the history of childhood and children's lives in late imperial China. The author draws on an extraordinary ran
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Categories: Poetry
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Journal of a Voyage with Bering, 1741-1742
Language: en
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Authors: Georg Wilhelm Steller
Categories: History
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The Voyage of American Promise
Language: en
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Authors: Dodge Morgan
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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True to Her Word
Language: en
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Authors: Weijing Lu
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This book is a comprehensive study of faithful maidenhood in late imperial China from the vantage points of state policy, local history, scholarly debate, and t