Geography Reference
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capital from Asia entered a property market already cultured and differentiated
by rules, regulations, and political arrangements. This political culture was
variously welcoming and resistant to new investment flows, with the idiosyn-
cratic intervention of the Laurier studies an attempt by a power elite favour-
ing globalisation to do an end run around local resistance. In the next
chapter we examine that resistance more closely, and consider various inter-
pretations of it.
