Name: America Through the Spectacles of an Oriental Diplomat
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Author: Wu Tingfang
ISBN: 9781843312697

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Editorial:: Wimbledon Publishing
Año de edición:: 2007
Materia: Política y gobierno
ISBN:: 9781843312697

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A beguiling account of twentieth-century America through the eyes of an outsider, a remarkable inversion of the standard ’Westerner observing the exotic’ travel writing formula.

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