"Remembering a bitter past": The trauma of China's labor camps, 1949-1978

History and Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 108-139

  Mühlhahn, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

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EID: 79953539701     PISSN: 0935560X     EISSN: 15271994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/ham.2004.0008     Document Type: Review

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