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IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-23 DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2023.2215261

D. Bachriadi, E. Aspinall

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Shan Male Migrants’ Engagement with Sex Work in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Pre- and Post-Pandemic 大流行前后，泰国清迈掸族男性移民参与性工作的情况

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-06-20 DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2023.2221679

Amporn Jirattikorn, A. Tangmunkongvorakul

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Myanmar’s Menu of Electoral Manipulation: Self- and External Legitimation after the 2021 Coup 缅甸选举操纵的菜单:2021年政变后的自我和外部合法性

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-25 DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2023.2212366

Michael Lidauer

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Xi Is Not Emperor of All He Surveys

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-21 DOI: 10.1080/14672715.2023.2213719

Jane Hayward

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Open Letter to President Xi Jinping on the Climate Crisis

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.2.233-243

G. Parkes

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Fengshui

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.1007/springerreference_77924

Selusi Ambrogio

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Masayuki TANIMOTO and R. Bin WONG, editors: Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy: Comparative Perspectives from Japan, China, and Europe 谷本雅之、黄仁斌主编:《近代早期经济中的公共产品供给:来自日本、中国和欧洲的比较视角》

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.2.317-321

Jiarui Wu

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Reflections on Waterscape Aesthetics in Chinese Tradition 中国传统水景美学的思考

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.2.15-40

Keping Wang

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Reimagining Affection in a Changing Shanghai 在变化的上海重新想象爱情

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.2.263-294

Joaquin Lopez Mugica, T. W. Whyke

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The Biopolitics of Nourishing Life 滋养生命的生命政治

IF 2.6 2区社会学

Critical Asian Studies Pub Date : 2023-05-16 DOI: 10.4312/as.2023.11.2.95-116

Manhua Li

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