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Original Articles

From Strategic Coupling to Recoupling and Decoupling: Restructuring Global Production Networks and Regional Evolution in China

Pages 1046-1063 | Received 14 Jun 2012, Accepted 12 Aug 2012, Published online: 23 Oct 2012

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