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    Rights statement: Hird, D. (2016). Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London
, NAN NÜ, 18(1), 115-147. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00181p05

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Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London. / Hird, Derek.
In: Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, Vol. 18, No. 1, 01.11.2016, p. 115-147.

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Hird, D 2016, 'Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London', Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, vol. 18, no. 1, pp. 115-147. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00181p05

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Hird, D. (2016). Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London. Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China, 18(1), 115-147. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685268-00181p05

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Hird D. Moral Masculinities: Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London. Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. 2016 Nov 1;18(1):115-147. doi: 10.1163/15685268-00181p05

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Hird, Derek. / Moral Masculinities : Ethical Self-fashionings of Professional Chinese Men in London. In: Nan Nü: Men, Women and Gender in China. 2016 ; Vol. 18, No. 1. pp. 115-147.

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