Centring Home in Mobility: Overseas Chinese Christians and the Construction of a Node of Religious Belonging in China.
Although the formation of overseas Chinese communities in cities constitutes a major trend in reform era China, conceptualisations of the relationship between the overseas Chinese and China remain divided. The overseas Chinese are seen either as temporary migrants with little attachment to the count...
| Publicado en: | Asian Studies Review Vol. 41; no. 4; pp. 611 - 629 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2017
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