Terry Cannon / Alan Jenkins (eds.)

The Geography of Contemporary China

The Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade
Herausgeber: Cannon, Terry; Jenkins

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the impact of the last 10 years of Deng Xiaoping's rule on China's physical environment, as well as its people, industry, agriculture and trade. It assesses the contribution of this decade towards regional development, urbanization, the environment and geopolitics.

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Table of contents:
1. Introduction: A Basic Guide to Developments from 1949 to 1989 2. Regions: Spatial Inequality and Regional Policy 3. History: Past Perspectives on the Current Geography of China 4. Environment: Understanding and Transforming the Physical Environment 5. People: Demographic Problems and Policies 6. Rural China: Old Problems and New Solutions 7. Industry, Energy and Transport: Problems and Policies 8. Urban Development: The Urbanisation Process 9. Foreign Investment and Trade: The Impact of the Economy on Spatial Structure 10. Environmental Impact of Economic Development: Problems and Policies 11. Defining and Defending the Chinese State: Geopolitical Perspectives

1989 saw world attention focused on a square in China's capital. The consequent massacre reaffirmed the political position of the Chinese government and of Deng Xiaoping in particular. This book provides an introduction to contemporary China and much needed survey of the last decade of administrative, demographic, economic and geopolitical development.

The 1989 student massacre reaffirmed the position of the Chinese government. This book provides an introduction to modern China and a survey of the last decade of administrative, geopolitical, demographic and economic development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780415001038
• ISBN-10: 041500103X
• Artikelnr.: 25279390

Autorenporträt

Terry Cannon (Edited by), Alan Jenkins (NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology) (Edited by)

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Education and Democracy in Dangerous Times Chapter 2. The
Paradox of Democratisation: College Prep and The Production of Shadow
CapitalChapter 3. Global Social Movements and Dialogical Pedagogy:
Politics, Power and Process Chapter 4. Resisting Governance by Numbers:
Some Lessons from Schools Chapter 5. Pursuing Pragmatic-Radical Curriculum
Democracy: Students as Co-Researchers on Problems that Matter Chapter 6.
What Is Valued Knowledge and Where Does It Live? Educational Consciousness
and the Democratisation of Education Chapter 7. Critical Literacy as
Legitimate Knowledge: The Importance of Teacher Agency Chapter 8.
Re-Imagining Young Children's Literacy Education for their Democratic
Participation Chapter 9. Teaching Democracy While Students Leave Their
Shoes at the Door: Attending to Mundane Practices of Power Inequality in
Thai Schools Chapter 10. Wither Democracy? The Rise of Epistocracy and
Monopoly in School Governance Chapter 11. Jacinta's Story: Challenging
Neoliberal Practices and Creating Democratic Spaces in Public High Schools
Chapter 12. Towards an Arts Education for Cultural Citizenship Chapter 13.
Democratic Management in Brazilian Schools: Practices of Resistance Chapter
14. Becoming Third World Women Educators Chapter 15. `Beating Their Unclad
Chests': Voluntourism, International Service and The Place of Critical
Pedagogy Inside the Neoliberal University Chapter 16. Grassroots Democracy
In New York State: Opting-Out and Resisting the Corporate Reform Agenda in
Schooling