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.

List of contents

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

About the author

Hsieh, Chiao-min Jimmy | Lu, Max

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: "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
• Assisted by: Editor (Editor), Editors (Editor), Chiao-Min Hsieh (Editor), Max Lu (Editor)
• Publisher: Perseus Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.02.1999
• EAN: 9780813334745
• ISBN: 978-0-8133-3474-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; 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