Implementing the Reform of Performance Appraisal in China’s Civil Service

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Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 39-65

  Chou, Bill K P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

China; communism; Herman Gorter; Li Da; Mao Zedong; Marxism

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954414024     PISSN: 0920203X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0920203X05051019     Document Type: Article

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