The paradox of Weiquan movements: Social inequality and individual negotiation in land development in urban China

Cities and Inequalities in a Global and Neoliberal World

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 154-169

  Shih, Mi ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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