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Presidential Address: Virtual Kinship, Real Estat, and Diaspora Formation—The Man Lineage Revisited

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

James L. Watson
James L. Watson
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Jwatson@wjh.harvard.eduFairbank Professor of Chinese Socity and Professor of Anthropology atHardvard University.
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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 63 , Issue 4 , November 2004 , pp. 893 - 910
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