Two worlds apart: a qualitative study of culture-led rural regeneration projects in China.
The urban–rural gap remains to be one fundamental inequality in modern China; however, the symbolic boundary derived from such socioeconomic inequality is less examined. Centre on two parallel initiatives aimed at cultural empowerment for rural China—independent bookstores and public-subsidized libr...
| Publicado en: | Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Vol. 25; no. 3; pp. 406 - 422 |
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