China S Geography

Author : Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781538140819

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China's Geography by Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang Pdf

Despite China's clear and growing importance on the world stage, it remains often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey, the most current and authoritative introduction available, vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this text traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors show contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces. They consider historical and current successes and difficulties, including economic, political, cultural, and environmental challenges, while placing China in its international context as a massive, developing, diverse nation that is meeting the needs of its 1.4 billion citizens while becoming an aggressive major regional and global player. Through clear prose and 160 insightful maps, tables, and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great economic, political, and social differences found throughout China's many regions. Accompanying the book is a companion website that provides a wealth of additional materials, including sample lectures, color versions of all the graphics, time series and provincial data files for student projects in Excel, lists of favorite films and websites, and public domain maps for student use.

Author : Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Christopher J. Smith,Youqin Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780742567849

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China's Geography by Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Christopher J. Smith,Youqin Huang Pdf

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition that offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments, and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors present contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces of past and present. They trace current and future successes and challenges while placing China in its international context as a massive, still-developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great differences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.

Author : Thomas R. Tregear
Publisher : London : University of London Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015003962894

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A Geography of China by Thomas R. Tregear Pdf

Author : Zhenhua Chen,Kingsley E. Haynes,Yulong Zhou,Zhaoxin Dai
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : TRANSPORTATION
ISBN : 9781785366048

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High Speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography by Zhenhua Chen,Kingsley E. Haynes,Yulong Zhou,Zhaoxin Dai Pdf

Presenting an analytical approach to assessing the socioeconomic impact of high speed rail in China, and using a multilevel spatial analysis approach at both the national and the regional level, this book emphasizes capturing the spatial spillover effects of rail infrastructure development on China’s economic geography in terms of land use, housing market, tourism, regional disparity, modal competition, the economy and environment.

Author : Jia Luo
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781422294499

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The Geography of China by Jia Luo Pdf

An immense land, China is approximately the same size as the United States. Yet it is home to more than four times as many people as live within U.S. borders--and the population is concentrated in the eastern half of the country because much of the west consists of rugged mountains and inhospitable desert. The Geography of China presents a wealth of information on such topics as topography, climate, natural resources, regions, cities, and environmental issues. It will be a valuable resource for students of this emerging nation.

Author : Avery Elizabeth Hurt
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781477788929

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Ancient Chinese Government and Geography by Avery Elizabeth Hurt Pdf

China is a massive country, but its surrounding mountains, two seas, and hazardous deserts kept it fairly secluded. In fact, early Chinese referred to it the Middle Kingdom, or the center of the world. China's major geographical features shaped so many aspects of life in ancient China, including how the various civilizations developed, their social organization, and the food they grew and raised. This illuminating resource reveals how the different ancient Chinese dynasties worked with and made the most of their harsh conditions.

Author : Gregory Veeck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742567825

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China's Geography by Gregory Veeck Pdf

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated editionthat offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Beginning with China's diverse landscapes and environments and continuing through its formative history and tumultuous recent past, the authors present contemporary China as a product of both internal and external forces of past and present. They trace current and future successes and challenges while placing China in its international contextas a massive, still-developing nation that must meet the needs of its 1.3 billion citizens while becoming a major regional and global player. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the greatdifferences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.

Author : 郑平
Publisher : 五洲传播出版社
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : China
ISBN : 7508509145

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China's Geography by 郑平 Pdf

Author : Yi-Fu Tuan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535380

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A Historical Geography of China by Yi-Fu Tuan Pdf

The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads, bridges, dams, and factories, and the consolidation of farm holdings alter the Chinese landscape and these alterations seem all the more conspicuous because they introduce features that are not distinctively Chinese. In contrast, traditional forms and architectural relics escape our attention because they are so identified with the Chinese scene that they appear to be almost outgrowths of nature. Describing the natural order of human beings in the context of the Chinese earth and civilization, "A Historical Geography of China" narrates the evolution of the Chinese landscape from prehistoric times to the present.Tuan views landscape as a visible expression of man's efforts to gain a living and achieve a measure of stability in the constant flux of nature. The book ranges the period of time from Peking man to the epoch of Mao Tse-tung. It moves through the ancient and modern dynasties, the warlords and conquests, earthquakes, devastating floods, climatic reversals, and staggering civil wars to the impact of Western civilization and industrialization. The emphasis throughout is on the effect of a changing environment on succeeding cultures.This classic study attempts to analyze and describe traditional Chinese settlement patterns and architecture. The result is a clear and succinct examination of the development of the Chinese landscape over thousands of years. It describes the ways the Communist regime worked to alter the face of the nation. This work will quickly prove to be crucial reading for all who are interested in this pivotal nation. It goes far beyond the usual political spectrum, into the physical and social roots of Chinese history.

Author : Ronald G. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824880040

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China's Island Frontier by Ronald G. Knapp Pdf

Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited principally by aborigines. Then, rather abruptly, the island was thrust into the maelstrom of European commercial expansion in East Asia, which in its wake drew Chinese peasant pioneers across the straits to Taiwan. This is the story, told from many viewpoints, of how Taiwan was transformed over a period of three centuries from a raw frontier to a stable entity with social and economic patterns similar to those found along the coastal mainland of southeastern China.

Author : Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031041587

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The Geography of Contemporary China by Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi Pdf

This textbook provides a comprehensive and very detailed insight into Chinese Contemporary Geography in English. It documents the geographical issues associated with China's rapid growth. Since initiating the reforms and open policy, China has achieved tremendous success. China's rapid growth is now a driving force in the global economy and is achieving unprecedented rates of poverty reduction. However, China also faces a number of sustainability and emerging challenges associated with rapid growth such as growing regional disparities in terms of per capita income and social-economic development, sustainable resource development, and issues related to regional and global economic integration. In addition, rapid economic growth has also brought about major challenges such as resource shortages, ecological and environmental destruction, land degradation and frequent disasters. This book presents the authors’ reflections. This lavishly illustrated book covers physical geography, history, and economic and political systems of the world's most populous country. The major focus is on geographical issues in China's contemporary development: agriculture, population, urbanization, resource and energy, and environment. The lead author of the book has taught relevant courses in China for three decades, and authored and edited multiple textbooks for Chinese students. This book will appeal to undergraduate students of geography and related disciplines with a regional focus on China and to the general reader who wants to learn different geographical aspects of modern China with little academic background in geography.

Author : Yannan Ding,Maurizio Marinelli,Xiaohong Zhang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319640426

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China: A Historical Geography of the Urban by Yannan Ding,Maurizio Marinelli,Xiaohong Zhang Pdf

This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolution and a world-historical event. Through the exploration of nine urban sites of momentous change, over an extended period of time, this book connects the past with the present, and provides much-needed literature on city growth and how they became complex laboratories of prosperity. The first part of this book puts Chinese urban changes into historical perspective, and probes the relationship between nation and city, focusing on Shanghai, Beijing and Changchun. Part two deals with the relationship between history and modernity, concentrating on Tunxi, a traditional trade center of tea, New Villages in Shanghai and street names in Taipei and Shanghai. Part three showcases the complexities of urban regeneration vis-à-vis heritage preservation in cities such as Datong, Tianjin and Qingdao. This book offers an innovative interdisciplinary and international perspective, which will be of interest to students and scholars of Chinese urban studies, as well Chinese politics and society.

Author : Emma Jinhua Teng
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684173938

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Taiwan’s Imagined Geography by Emma Jinhua Teng Pdf

"Until 300 years ago, the Chinese considered Taiwan a “land beyond the seas,” a “ball of mud” inhabited by “naked and tattooed savages.” The incorporation of this island into the Qing empire in the seventeenth century and its evolution into a province by the late nineteenth century involved not only a reconsideration of imperial geography but also a reconceptualization of the Chinese domain. The annexation of Taiwan was only one incident in the much larger phenomenon of Qing expansionism into frontier areas that resulted in a doubling of the area controlled from Beijing and the creation of a multi-ethnic polity. The author argues that travelers’ accounts and pictures of frontiers such as Taiwan led to a change in the imagined geography of the empire. In representing distant lands and ethnically diverse peoples of the frontiers to audiences in China proper, these works transformed places once considered non-Chinese into familiar parts of the empire and thereby helped to naturalize Qing expansionism. By viewing Taiwan–China relations as a product of the history of Qing expansionism, the author contributes to our understanding of current political events in the region."

Author : Steven Brakman,Charles van Marrewijk,Peter J. Morgan,Nimesh Salike
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351390781

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China in the Local and Global Economy by Steven Brakman,Charles van Marrewijk,Peter J. Morgan,Nimesh Salike Pdf

The history of China dates back thousands of years, with periods of decline followed by periods of growth and innovation. This book puts the last 50 years – China's most recent period of growth – into perspective. It explores the changing national and international connections within China and between China and other parts of the world, and their importance for understanding the past, current, and future developments of the Chinese economy. The book brings together leading international contributors from China, Japan and Europe to consider the historical developments of these connections, the importance of natural and man-made connections for the Chinese economy, the role of institutions and policies for understanding the connections and their sustainability. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers focusing on China, economics, geography or international trade.

Author : T.R. Tregear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781351535489

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A Geography of China by T.R. Tregear Pdf

This book is intended primarily for serious students of geography but it will also appeal to the general reader. For this reason technical terms have been used as sparingly as is consistent with correct meaning. Wherever the subject matter permits, the author emphasizes geographical growth and shows the interaction of geographical environment and the human activity and institutions. When originally published in the 1960s China was beginning to change with breathtaking rapidity. These changes are presented here against geographical and historical background. Knowledge of the environmental facts is essential to an appreciation of the political, economic, and social problems that have faced the Chinese people.