The Shenzhen experiment the story of China’s instant city
A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab "instant...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London
Harvard University Press
2019, ©2019
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | A rural borderland just forty years ago, today Shenzhen is a city of twenty million and a technology hub. This success is attributed to its status as a Special Economic Zone, but no other SEZs compare. Juan Du looks to the past to understand why. It turns out that Shenzhen is no prefab "instant city," but a place influenced by deep local history. |
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| Physical Description: | 376 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-0-674-24222-7 978-0-674-24224-1 978-0-674-24223-4 |