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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-05-01 - Publisher: University of Washington Press
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Language: en
Pages: 612
Pages: 612
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Pages: 236
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Two very different ethnic minority communities—the Naxi of the Lijiang area in northern Yunnan and the Tai (Dai) of Sipsong Panna (Xishuangbanna), along Yunna
Language: en
Pages: 516
Pages: 516
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This book relates the history of the Manchus, the rise and fall of their vast empire and their legacy today.