Selling the 'modern woman': Consumer culture and Chinese gender politics

Images of The 'Modern Woman' in Asia: Global Media, Local Meanings

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 94-122

  Johansson, Perry ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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EID: 85073867670     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203037171-13     Document Type: Chapter

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