The Chinese biopolitical: Facing the twenty-first century

New Genetics and Society

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 205-222

  Greenhalgh, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bionationalism; Biopolitics; China; Economic governance; Social governance

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; GOVERNMENT; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 71949112443     PISSN: 14636778     EISSN: 14699915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14636770903151992     Document Type: Review

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