Disco 'super-culture': Consuming foreign sex in the Chinese disco: Cosmopolitan dance culture and cosmopolitan sexual culture

Sexualities

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 147-165

  Farrer, James ^a  

^a SOPHIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

China; Dance; Globalization; Sexuality; Youth

Indexed keywords

EID: 4344704979     PISSN: 13634607     EISSN: 14617382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/136346079900200201     Document Type: Article

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