Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System: Unravelling the Myth

Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System: Unravelling the Myth

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-205

  Zheng, Victor ^a  

^a HKU   (Hong Kong)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203861417     Document Type: Book

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