Deng Xiaoping's rule has brought fundamental economic change to China. This book considers the impact of these years on China's physical environment, as well as on its people, industry, agriculture, and trade. The contributors assess the contribution of a decade of Chinese politics towards regional development, urbanization, the environment, and geopolitics. This accessible and much-needed survey sets its spatial and environmental themes in a historical, political and economic framework so crucial to an understanding of this country and the population which represents one-fifth of the world's inhabitants.
List of Figures and Tables
List of Contributors
Preface
Basic Information
Chornology : From Opium War to Deng Xiaoping
Chapter 1 : Introduction : A Basic Guide to Developments from 1949 to 1989
Chapter 2 : Regions : Spatial Inequality and Regional Policy
Chapter 3 : History : Historical Perspectives on the Current Geography of China
Chapter 4 : Environment : Understanding and Transforming the Physical Environment
Chapter 5 : People : Demographic Patterns and Policies
Chapter 6 : Rural China : Old Problems and New Solutions
Chapter 7 : Industry, Energy and Transport: Problems and Policies
Chapter 8 : Urbanisation : PRocess and Patterns
Chapter 9 : Foreign Investment and Trade : Impact on Spatial Structure of the Economy
Chapter 10 : The Environmental Impact of Economic Development : Problems and Policies
Chapter 11 : Defining and Defending the Chinese State : Geopolitical Perspectives
Chapter 12 : Postscript
Index
