Miao identities, indigenism and the politics of appropriation in southwest China during the republican period

Asian Ethnicity

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-114

  Siu Woo, Cheung ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 34247455946     PISSN: 14631369     EISSN: 14692953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1463136022000039460     Document Type: Article

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