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A Taste of Freedom: Memoirs of a Formosan Independence Leader [Signed by the Author]
by Ming-min, Peng
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0030913888
- ISBN 13
- 9780030913884
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1972 Book. Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. xvi, 270 pp, foreword by George H. Kerr, author's notes, I. My Formosan Heritage; II,. Nagasaki, 1945; III. Return to Formosa and to University Life; IV. The March Uprising; V. Montreal and Paris; VI. Academic Life --- Formosa and Abroad; VII. At the United Nations: A Personal Dilemma; VIII. My Arrest; IX. Interrogation; X. Court Martial and Prison; XI. Surveillance; XII. Escape to Sweden; XIII. The View from America; index. First Edition, 1972. Inscribed by the Author. "The author presents the history of Formosa, with its complex cultural and political relationship to mainland China and Japan, at once turbulent and tragic." Price clipped. Three small closed tears with some additional minor edge wear, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no other underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Black cloth with gilt lettering to spine..
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000305
- Title
- A Taste of Freedom: Memoirs of a Formosan Independence Leader [Signed by the Author]
- Author
- Ming-min, Peng
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0030913888
- ISBN 13
- 9780030913884
- Publisher
- Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- HISTORY FAR EAST CHINA FORMOSA POLITICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS "THE FORMOSA PROBLEM"
- Bookseller catalogs
- HISTORY;
- Size
- 8vo
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