Changing China A Geographic Appraisal |
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| Editor:
| Hsieh, Chiao-Min |
| Author:
| Lu, Max |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8133-3473-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2003 |
| Publisher: | Routledge
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $125.00 |
Book Description:
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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 post-Cold 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,...
More Description 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 post-Cold 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 China’s role in the Pacific Rim. A concluding chapter considers China’s 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.