Voices of Xiagang: Naming, Blaming, and Framing

Laid-Off Workers in a Workers' State: Unemployment with Chinese Characteristics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 95-114

  Hung, Eva P W ^a   Chiu, Stephen W K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84859861168     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230620445     Document Type: Chapter

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1. Ethnographic details are based on interviews done in Beijing, Mengtougou, and Wuhan, represented here by B, M, and W respectively. B-51 therefore denotes the number 51 informant we interviewed in Beijing.
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