GLORIA E. BADER is president and CEO of Richard Chang Associates, Inc., a consulting and publishing firm whose clients include Toshiba, Marriot, Citibank, Fidelity Investments, Nabisco, and McDonald's. He currently serves as chair of the board for the American Society for Training and Development. He lives near Irvine, California.
List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Negotiating Geographical Knowledges: Region of Reform
Representing South China: Special Zone 'Experiment' Meets 'Miracle'
Development
Area Studies Debates: China's 'Response to the West'
Restructuring Area Studies
China Area Studies and the 'Macroregion'
Transboundary Cultural Economy
Region, Place / Space, and Scale: Scaling Social Processes
Contextual Geographics
Region and Representations: Geographical Representations: Northern Vantage
Coastal Imaginaries
Coming into Difference
Rewriting South China: Bai Yue
Kingdom of Chu
Region as Greater China: Myth of 'Ungrounded Empire'
Transboundary Economies and the Territorial Trap
History of the North and the South
Regional Thinking
Maritime Frontier / Mercantile Region: Region and Nature-Society Relations
Fringe of Empire
Early Coastal Settlement: Cities of Min
Quanzhou and Ningbo
The Deltas and Land Reclamation
Mercantile Region: The Zheng He Voyages
Zheng He and Tianhou
The Amoy Network
The Junk Trade
Open Ports and the Treaty System: 'Semicolonialism': The Treaty Settlements
Opium for Tea
The Open Ports: Foreign Settlement
The Spirit of Min
Commercial Organization:
Ningbo: The Pivotal Port
Xiamen: Remittance Economies
Infrastructural Development: Rebuilding Xiamen
Mercantile Society and Mercantile Cities
Revolution and Diaspora: The Southern Revolutionary Axis: From Guangzhou to
Shanghai
Revolution and the Overseas Chinese
Southeast Asian Chinese Communities
Malaysia and the National Culture Debates
Melaka: The Bukit China Movement:
Rise of a Social Movement
Region as Homeland
Negotiating Absolute Space
The Social Construction of Place
Constructing the Nationscape
Place and National Culture
Gendered Industrialization:
Who Cares?: Regional Economy
Engendering Industrialization: Male Bias in the Development Process
Gendered Reform Policies: Rural Reform and the Feminization of the
Agricultural Labor Force
The Export-Oriented Industrialization Regime
The New Services Sector: Prostitution
Redirections
Zone Fever:
The Proliferation of Special Development Zones: 'Model' Development
The Land Conversion Moratorium
Rapid Development and the 'Arable Land Problem': Policy Shifts and Arable
Land Loss
The Contradictions: Administrative Hierarchy Contradictions
Land Monitoring Contradictions
Rural-Urban Contradictions
Real Estate Fever and Financial Collapse
Urban Triumphant: 1997 and the Hong Kong Handover:
One Country, All Kinds of Systems
Geographies of Globalization: Cosmopolitics
Property Development in Hong Kong
Exhibitionary Complex
New Environmental Movements
Rebuilding Shanghai
New Cosmopolitanisms?
Globalizing Cities
Epilogue:.Region and Globalization
Region, State and Identity
Index
