Making sense of china's economic transformation

Review of Radical Political Economics

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-55

  Lo, Dic ^a,b   Zhang, Yu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; globalization; late development; transition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251513637     PISSN: 04866134     EISSN: 15528502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0486613410383952     Document Type: Article

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