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Book Title: Imagining Harmony: Poetry, Empathy, And Community In Mid-Tok...
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 0.6in
Item Width: 6in
Author: Peter Flueckiger
Publication Name: Imagining Harmony : Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication Year: 2010
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 19.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
