State comrades and an elderly woman's suicide

Critique of Anthropology

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-163

  Jing, Jun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Old age support; Population resettlement; Society state relationships; Suicide; Unintended consequence

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249682777     PISSN: 0308275X     EISSN: 14603721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0308275X07076785     Document Type: Conference Paper

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