The crisis of masculinity: Class, gender, and kindly power in post-Mao China

American Ethnologist

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 550-562

  Yang, Jie ^a  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

benevolent government; China; class; kindly power; masculinity; social stability; unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954713271     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01272.x     Document Type: Article

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