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10 - Local States of Play: Land and Urban Politics in Reform-Era China

from Part IV - Social and Economic Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 June 2019

By
Meg Rithmire
Edited by
Agustina Giraudy ,
Eduardo Moncada  and
Richard Snyder
Agustina Giraudy
Affiliation:
American University, Washington DC
Eduardo Moncada
Affiliation:
Barnard College, Columbia University
Richard Snyder
Affiliation:
Brown University, Rhode Island
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Subnational Research in Comparative Politics
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