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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2007

Mayfair Mei-Hui Yang
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yangm@anth.ucsb.eduProfessor of Anthropology at the University of CaliforniaSanta Barbara
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