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Guest Editor’s Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2015

Madeleine Zelin
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 6 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Business History in Modern China , September 2005, pp. 357 - 363
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