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Urban and regional horizons

State rescaling, policy experimentation and path dependency in post-Mao China: a dynamic analytical framework

Kean Fan LimSchool of Geography, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1580-1593 | Received 19 Sep 2016, Accepted 29 Apr 2017, Published online: 26 Jun 2017

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