The purchase of transnational intimacy: Women's bodies, transnational masculine privileges in Chinese economic zones

Asian Studies Review

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 57-75

  Shen, Hsiu Hua ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

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EID: 57549098014     PISSN: 10357823     EISSN: 14678403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10357820701870759     Document Type: Article

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