Research Catalog

Title

China's geography : globalization and the dynamics of political, economic, and social change / Gregory Veeck ... [et al.].

Publication

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Veeck, Gregory, 1956-

Description

xiii, 381 p. : ill., maps; 27 cm.

Summary

• "There are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China illustrates.
• Offering the first sustained geography of the reform era, the authors trace the changes occurring in this great and ancient nation across both time and space.
• Through clear prose and abundant maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great differences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Changing regions in a global context

Uniform Title

Changing regions in a global context.

Subject

China

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

China's path and progress -- China's natural environments -- Ancient roots and binding traditions -- The political geography of emerging China -- Population and human resources -- Culture and cultural changes in urban China / Christopher J. Smith -- A preface to China's changing economic geography -- Agriculture : from antiquity to revolution to reform -- Urban development in contemporary China / Youqin Huang -- Reform and challenge in China's industrial sector -- Hong Kong before and after the return / Christopher J. Smith -- Macao (Macau) -- Taiwan.

ISBN

• 0742554023 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780742554023

LCCN

^^2006013517

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library