The beggar's play: Poverty, coercion, and performance in Shenyang, China

Anthropological Quarterly

Volumn 82, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 7-35

  Henry, Eric ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Begging; China; Modernity; Performance; Poverty

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651241985     PISSN: 00035491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/anq.0.0051     Document Type: Article

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