Taiwan's cultural reconstruction movement: Identity politics and collective action since 2000

Issues and Studies

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-51

  Lee, Wei Chin ^a  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cultural reformulation; Ethnicity; Identity; Social movement; Taiwan

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244370419     PISSN: 10132511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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