Sociological Perspectives on Urban China: From Familiar Territories to Complex Terrains

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Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 519-551

  Chen, Xiangming ^a,b   Sun, Jiaming ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY COMMERCE   (United States)

Author keywords

consumption; governance; housing; inequality; migration; networks; resistance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992905422     PISSN: 0920203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0920203X06070041     Document Type: Article

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