Migration and Native Place: Qiaokan and the Imagined Community of Taishan County,
Guangdong, 1893-1993
Author(s): Madeline Y. Hsu
Source: The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 59, No. 2 (May, 2000), pp. 307-331
Published by: Association for Asian Studies
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