Changing China - A Geographical Appraisal

This book provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the giant country, China, that is undergoing an unparalleled and historic transition from a centralized command economy to a market-based economy, and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial power.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface -- Introduction: The Changing Geographies of China -- Economic Changes -- Land-Use Patterns and Land-Use Change -- Diminishing Cropland and Agricultural Outlook -- Agricultural Growth and Food Supply -- Agricultural Surplus Labor Transfer -- Policies and Spatial Changes of Industrial Development -- Changes in China's Space Economy Since the Reform -- Sustainable Development in the Yangtze Delta Area -- From Special Economic Zones to Special Technological Zones -- Foreign Direct Investment in the North China Coastal Region -- China in the Pacific Rim: Trade and Investment Links -- Social Changes -- Changes in the Chinese Population: Demography, Distribution, and Policy -- Population Characteristics and Ethnic Diversity -- Internal Migration -- Gender Differences in Chinese Migration -- Engendering Industrialization in China Under Reform -- Growth and Management of Large Cities -- Suburbanization in Beijing -- Village Transformation in Taiwan and Fujian -- Changes Along China's Periphery -- China's Changing Boundaries -- The Return of Hong Kong: Liabilities or Assets? -- Taiwan and Mainland China: Divided or United? -- The Geography and Political Economics of Inner Mongolia Beyond 2000 -- Xinjiang (Eastern Turkistan): Names, Regions, Landscapes, and Futures -- Province, Nation, and the Chinese Mega-State -- Afterword: China Enters the Twenty-First Century

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Hsieh, Chiao-min Jimmy | Lu, Max

Zusammenfassung

This book provides an up-to-date and detailed account of the giant country, China, that is undergoing an unparalleled and historic transition from a centralized command economy to a market-based economy, and from a rural, agricultural society to an urban, industrial power.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: "Chiao-Min ""Jimmy""" Hsieh, Chiao-Min Hsieh, Chiao-min "Jimmy" Hsieh, Chiao-Min Jimmy Hsieh, Hsieh Chiao-Min, Max Hsieh Chiao-Min Lu, Max Lu, Lu Max
• Mitarbeit: Editor (Herausgeber), Editors (Herausgeber), Chiao-Min Hsieh (Herausgeber), Max Lu (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Perseus Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 13.02.1999
• EAN: 9780813334745
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3474-5
• Seiten: 496
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Sachbuch > Lexika, Nachschlagewerke > Lexika, Enzyklopädien; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung; China, Reisen und Urlaub, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, Politik und Staat, Entwicklungsstudien, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, Travel & holiday, Politics & government, Politics and government, Political Geography, Travel and holiday, Development Studies, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, Development and environmental geography