Screens As Faces and Façades: Old Order and New Media - Screens on Tiananmen Square in Beijing

Vera Tollmann

Screens As Faces and Façades: Old Order and New Media - Screens on Tiananmen Square in Beijing

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Screens As Faces and Façades: Old Order and New Media - Screens on Tiananmen Square in Beijing. / Tollmann, Vera.
In: Modern China Studies, No. 1, 2, 2016.

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