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Here are 19 fall 2012 nonfiction titles worth checking out.
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5. 'Chinese Characters: Profiles of Fast-Changing Lives in a Fast-Changing Land,' edited by E. Angilee Shah and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Fifteen essays by different authors tackle the subject of today’s China and the speed with which its citizens are adjusting to modernization, touching on everything from the rise of the middle class to the prevalence of migrant labor to the arrival of rock guitar and rental cars. (Sept.)
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