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Article published In: Explored but not Assumed: Revisiting Commonalities in Asian Pacific Communication
Edited by Hui-Ching Chang and Ling Chen
[Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 25:1] 2015
► pp. 1–21

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Commonalities as an alternative approach to analyzing Asian Pacific communication

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 | University of Illinois at Chicago
 | Hong Kong Baptist University
Published online: 15 June 2015
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