Women in the People’s Republic of China: New challenges to the grand gender narrative

Women in Asia: Tradition, Modernity and Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2020, Pages 59-84

  Edwards, Louise ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85090963744     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781003118411-4     Document Type: Chapter

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