Better city, better life the ethics of branding the model city at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo

Place Branding and Public Diplomacy

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 185-196

  Dynon, Nicholas ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

harmonious society; regime branding; world expo

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860399030     PISSN: 17518040     EISSN: 17518059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/pb.2011.21     Document Type: Article

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