Chiao-Min "Jimmy" Hsieh, Max Lu

Changing China (eBook, PDF)

A Geographic Appraisal

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Februar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429970313
• Artikelnr.: 54086208

Autorenporträt

Hsieh, Chiao-min "Jimmy" Lu, Max

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Changing Geographies of China
Part 1 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
Part 2 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
Part 3 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