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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
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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.
