On the shifting spatial logics of socioeconomic regulation in post-1949 China

Territory, Politics, Governance

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 65-91

  Lim, Kean Fan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

centralization; China; decentralization; regulation; socioeconomic transition; uneven development

Indexed keywords

EID: 84981713345     PISSN: 21622671     EISSN: 2162268X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/21622671.2015.1099466     Document Type: Article

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