Land rights in rural China since 1978: Reforms, successes, and shortcomings

China Perspectives

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 87-99

  Vendryes, Thomas ^a,b  

^a PARIS SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b CEFC ^*  (Hong Kong)

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