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While the popular history of the city of Yangzhou, and especially its reconstruction as a tourist site, focuses on the golden period of the 18th century, Meyer-Fong (history, Johns Hopkins U.) looks b
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Treats novelist Narayan's (b. 1906) concern for his own Indian civilization, which he describes as threatened by slumbering routine and influences from the west. Each of his 14 novels is set in a fict
