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Title: Chinese Outcasts: Discrimination and Emancipation in Late Imperial China (Sinica Leidensia, V. 37) by A. Hansson, Anders Hansson ISBN: 9-0041059-6-4 Publisher: Brill Academic Pub Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $112.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)

Rating: 3
Summary: Quite a nice work for elementary reader
Comment: "Chinese Outcasts" is the first English book discussing about the mean people in Qing dynasty. This book gives a comperhensive and detailed factual account of the different emancipated groups and how they were emancipated. This is a good introductary work about the outcasts in Qing China. However, I would rate this work higher if it could also cover more important issues concerning the mean people, including the differences between the government's attitude and the populace's attitude towards the mean people, giving more critical analysis about the reasons for Yongzheng's emancipation and working more about the consequences of the reform, to what extent it succeeded or failed and wh