"Dividing the poor": State governance of differential impoverishment in northeast China

American Ethnologist

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-200

  Cho, Mun Young ^a  

^a Yonsei University   (South Korea)

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EID: 84857540871     PISSN: 00940496     EISSN: 15481425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01357.x     Document Type: Article

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