Performing the nation: China's children as Little Red Pioneers

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 647-672

  Woronov, T E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Communism; Little Red Pioneers; Nationalism; Performance theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348949599     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.2007.0052     Document Type: Review

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