China's urbanization levels: Reconstructing a baseline from the fifth population census

China Quarterly

Volumn , Issue 173, 2003, Pages 176-196

  Zhou, Yixing ^a   Ma, Laurence J C ^b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DATA QUALITY; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION;

CHINA;

EID: 0037366473     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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