The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Phuket: Religion, Ethnicity, and Tourism on a Southern Thai Island |
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| Title | The Chinese Vegetarian Festival in Phuket: Religion, Ethnicity, and Tourism on a Southern Thai Island Issue 9 of Studies in contemporary Thailand |
| Author | Erik Cohen |
| Publisher | White Lotus Press, 2001 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Oct 2008 |
| ISBN | 9747534894, 9789747534894 |
| Length | 211 pages |
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