A taste of ‘modernity’: Working in a western restaurant in market socialist China

Ethnography

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 543-565

  Hsu, Carolyn L ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

Author keywords

consumerism; development; Harbin; modernity; People's Republic of China; post socialist or post communist; restaurants

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247661804     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138105062478     Document Type: Article

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