Marginalisation in the Chinese energy sector: The case of township and village coal mines

Marginalisation in China: Perspectives on Transition and Globalisation

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 55-80

  Andrews Speed, Philip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

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