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Research Article

A zone of exception? Interrogating the hybrid housing regime and nested enclaves in China-Singapore Suzhou-Industrial-Park

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Pages 592-616 | Received 12 Jan 2019, Accepted 17 Aug 2020, Published online: 14 Oct 2020

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