Tibet and the problem of radical reductionism

Antipode

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 983-1010

  Yeh, Emily T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Agency; China; Left critique; Reductionism; Tibet

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; GLOBALIZATION; IMPERIALISM; NEOLIBERALISM; POLITICAL CONFLICT; POLITICAL IDEOLOGY;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; XIZANG;

EID: 70449404907     PISSN: 00664812     EISSN: 14678330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00704.x     Document Type: Article

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