Creating an urban middle class: Social engineering in Beijing

China Journal

Volumn , Issue 51, 2004, Pages 1-26

  Tomba, Luigi ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASS; GENTRIFICATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; URBAN SOCIETY;

EID: 0442280869     PISSN: 13249347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3182144     Document Type: Article

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