Introduction: Chinese kinship metamorphoses

Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 1-26

  Brandtstädter, Susanne ^a   Santos, Gonçalo D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203889886     Document Type: Editorial

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