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Spatial Struggles: Postcolonial Complex, State Disenchantment, and Popular Reappropriation of Space in Rural Southeast China

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Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
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yangm@anth.ucsb.eduProfessor of Anthropology at the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 3 , August 2004 , pp. 719 - 755
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