"Being practical" or "doing what I want": The role of parents in the academic choices of Chinese Americans

Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of The New Second Generation

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 79-109

  Louie, Vivian ^a  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

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