From Nü Guo to Nü'er Guo: Negotiating desire in the land of the Mosuo

Modern China

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 448-486

  Walsh, Eileen Rose ^a  

^a SKIDMORE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Gender; Mosuo; Na; Tourism; Yunnan

Indexed keywords

ETHNICITY; GENDER RELATIONS; IMAGE; TOURIST DESTINATION;

ASIA; CHINA; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LUOSHUI; WORLD; YUNNAN;

EID: 26244435239     PISSN: 00977004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0097700405279243     Document Type: Article

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