Creating Chinese ethnicity: Subei people in Shanghai, 1850-1980

by Emily Honig

$45 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1992 . First edition, 8vo, pp. xv, 3 , 174; 6 maps; previous owner's signature on front free endpaper, else a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. For the last century immigrants from the northern part of Jiangsu Province have been the most despised people in China's largest city, Shanghai. Called Subei people, they have dominated the ranks of unskilled laborers and resided in makeshift shacks on the city's edge. They

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