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The “Third Front” after Sixty Years

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 October 2024

Barry Naughton
Barry Naughton*
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UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Email: bnaughton@ucsd.edu
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The China Quarterly , Volume 260 , December 2024 , pp. 925 - 931
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