Migration and privatization of space and power in late socialist China

American Ethnologist

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 179-205

  Zhang, Li ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Migration; Power; Social network; Socialism and postsocialism; Space; State society dynamic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035529325     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ae.2001.28.1.179     Document Type: Article

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