Reconstructing urban scale: New experiments with the "provincial administration of counties" reform in China

China Review

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 147-173

  Li, Yi ^a   Wu, Fulong ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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