Domestic Bureaucratic Politics and Chinese Foreign Policy

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 23, Issue 86, 2014, Pages 294-313

  Lai, Hongyi ^a   Kang, Su Jeong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84894265318     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2013.832531     Document Type: Article

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