Attraction without networks: Recruiting strangers to unregistered protestantism in China

Mobilization

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-94

  Vala, Carsten T ^a   O'Brien, Kevin J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Political Science ^*

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