A Profile of Advertising in China’s “Socialist-Market Economy”

Media Asia

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 47-60

  Ciochetto, Lynne ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 85068275545     PISSN: 01296612     EISSN: 23776277     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01296612.2005.11726774     Document Type: Article

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