Chinatown under siege: Community protest and structural ritualization theory

Humboldt Journal of Social Relations

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 5-52

  Guan, Jian ^a   Knottnerus, J David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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