Constructing the other: A critical reading of the Joy Luck Club

Howard Journal of Communications

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 149-175

  Yin, Jing ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Articulation; Chinese Americans; Chinese culture; Culture; Orientalist Assimilationist paradigm; Other; Public pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 27844612065     PISSN: 10646175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10646170500207899     Document Type: Article

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