Politics and poetics in translation: Accounting for a chinese version of ‘yes prime minister’

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 249-272

  Fung Chang, Nam ^a  

^a LINGNAN UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

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EID: 84937185948     PISSN: 13556509     EISSN: 17570409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13556509.1998.10799022     Document Type: Article

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