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Changing Chinaexperts on China, both inside and outside China, to examine the spatial patterns and spatial dynamics of postCold War China. Organized around themes such as social change and economic change, the book includes individual chapters on food supply and agricultural growth, patterns of land use, transfer of surplus labor, population migration, urbanization and changes in urban structure, environmental stress, the changing regional development pattern, increasing interregional economic disparities and tensions, the situation of interior China, and Chinas role in the Pacific Rim. A concluding chapter considers Chinas emerging status in world affairs. Changing China: A Geographical Appraisal will be a useful resource for students and scholars of geography, anthropology, and Asian studies. }China is undergoing an incredible metamorphosis that is unmatched in its long history.The economic reform, the double-digit rate of growth, the expanding market economy, the expansion of private enterprises, the construction boom in Chinas cities, the extraordinary rural industrialization, the large amount of migration, and the increasing links between China and the world economyall are reshaping the landscape of this fascinating and complex giant. Its emergence as an economic superpower has implications not only for the Asia-Pacific realm but also for the world in the twenty-first century. Changing China: A Geographical Appraisal brings together over twenty experts on China, both inside and outside China, to examine the spatial patterns and spatial dynamics of postCold War China. Organized around themes such as social change and economic change, the book includes individual chapters on food supply and agricultural growth, patterns of land use, transfer of surplus labor, population migration, urbanization and changes in urban structure, environmental stress, the changing regional development pattern, increasing interregional economic disparities and tensions, the situation of interior China, and Chinas role in the Pacific Rim.A concluding chapter considers Chinas emerging status in world affairs. Changing China: A Geographical Appraisal will be a useful resource for students and scholars of geography, anthropology, and Asian studies. }
Contents
Introduction (Chiao-min Hsieh and Max Lu); Economic Changes; Agricultural Growth and Food Supply (Jianfa Shen); Land-use Pattern and Land-use Change (Changhui Peng and Hong Jiang); Surplus Labor Transfer and Rural Industrialization (Sen-san Han); Industrialization in the Post-Reform Period (Lu Dadao); From Special Economic Zones to Special Technological Zones (Shuguang Wang); Locational and Sectoral Distribution of the Yangtze Delta (Chi Kin Leung); Sustainable Development of the Yangtze Delta (Ren Mei-e); Changing Pattern of Regional Development (M. Lu); Social Changes; Rural-Urban Migration (Kam Wing Chan); Metropolitan Growth and Control in China (Yehua Wei); Beijings Suburbanization 19821990 (Fahui Wang); The Human Dimensions of Environmental Change (H. Jiang); Gender Issues in China (Carolyn L. Cartier); Ethnic Diversity in China (David Wong); China as a Multiregional State (Charles Greer); Gendering Gendering Industrialization or Female Migration (C. Cindy Fan); The Change of Rural Settlements and Housing Problems (Ronald Knapp); China And The World; Chinas Role in the Pacific Rim (Gang Xu); Territorial Disputes with Neighboring Countries (C. Hsieh); The Taiwan Strait Conflict: The Dispute Between the Communists and Nationalists (C. Hsieh); Interior China, Zinjiang, and Inner Mongolia (Robert McCall and Stanley Topps); Change and Continuity: China Faces the Twenty-First Century (C. Hsieh and M. Lu)
