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The cultural production of the ‘quality citizen’: internalisation, appropriation and re-configuration of suzhi discourse among migrant youths in Shanghai, China

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Pages 303-316 | Received 20 Nov 2019, Accepted 26 Nov 2019, Published online: 13 Dec 2019

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