Globalization and Population Governance in China

Global Assemblages: Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 354-372

  Greenhalgh, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Globalization; Modernization; Numerical control; Population governance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889331700     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470696569.ch19     Document Type: Chapter

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