Industrial Geography In Contemporary China

Author : Canfei He
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000567977

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Industrial Geography in Contemporary China by Canfei He Pdf

This title provides an overall view of industrial geography in the context of contemporary China and investigates the development processes, research paradigms, and achievements of China’s industrial geography, with a particular focus on the post- reform period. The first two chapters introduce the overall background of industrialization and evolving policies of industrial geography in contemporary China. Based on sweeping literature reviews, empirical data analysis, and case studies, the author then examines key aspects of industrial geography and geographical patterns, dynamics, and the impact of industrial development. The following topics are discussed in detail: the geographical distribution and agglomeration of industries; national industrial parks; urbanization and industrialization; regional evolution of industries and interregional networks; firms and industrial organizations; exports, foreign investment, and trade; labour migration; land supply; industrial innovation; environmental issues and regulations; and industrial planning. In providing a full picture of the industrial geography of contemporary China, the title will be an essential reference for scholars and students studying economic geography, industrial geography, and the industrial and economic development of the People’s Republic of China.

Author : Terry Cannon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-09-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134989560

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The Geography of Contemporary China by Terry Cannon Pdf

The 1989 student massacre reaffirmed the position of the Chinese government. This book provides an introduction to modern China and a survey of the last decade of administrative, geopolitical, demographic and economic development.

Author : Terry Cannon,Alan Jenkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:695220676

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The Geography of Contemporary China by Terry Cannon,Alan Jenkins Pdf

Author : Gregory Veeck
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 49,5 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 : Gregory Veeck,Clifton W. Pannell,Xiaoping Shen,Youqin Huang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Jing’ai Wang,Shunlin Liang,Peijun Shi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Mu Yang,Hong Yu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814324748

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China's Industrial Development in the 21st Century by Mu Yang,Hong Yu Pdf

Annotation This text provides a focused analysis of the main Chinese industrial sectors through case studies, data analysis and review of new state-initiated policies.

Author : Rudi Hartmann,Jing'ai Wang,Tao Ye
Publisher : Springer
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401787925

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A Comparative Geography of China and the U.S. by Rudi Hartmann,Jing'ai Wang,Tao Ye Pdf

The book is the outcome of a unique venture: a team of Chinese geographers and a team of American geographers collaborated on a new Comparative Geography of China and the United States. The book meets a high demand for comparative information about China and the United States, as the home of the two leading economies in a globalizing world. Comparisons of the two countries include the similarities and differences in their physical environments and natural hazards, the growth and changing spatial distribution of population and ethnic groups in China and the U.S., traditions and contemporary regional expressions of agriculture and food production as well as the rapidly changing urban and industrial patterns in both countries. The book also highlights the two countries’ interconnectedness, in trade and in the exchange of cultural, social, scientific & technological information. The volume serves as a major resource in geographic education as it contributes to a better and more comprehensive understanding of the formation and development of the two countries’ basic geographical patterns and processes.

Author : Guan Quan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000325805

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Industrial Development in Modern China by Guan Quan Pdf

As the second volume of the two-volume Industrial Development in Modern China: Comparisons with Japan that studies the different paths of industrialization and economic modernization between China and Japan, this book explores the process of economic and industrial development in the Republic of China (1912-1949). Backed up by extensive industrial statistical data gathered and rigorously analyzed by the author, this book stands out from previous research that has been limited to theoretical inferences and general judgments with scarce empirical evidence. So, far from being a purely historical review of China's industrial development, this book focuses on the internal logic of economic phenomena, especially the relationship among economic variables reflected in economic data, and it offers discussions within the framework of economic development theory. It sheds light on how China came to be a comparative economic laggard in the period, especially in comparison to Japan. The author uses multivariate statistical analysis to draw comparisons between the industrial development of China and that of Japan, focusing on outbound investment and its importance for economic growth. This volume will appeal to academics and general readers interested in the economic development and modern economic history of East Asia, as well as development economics and industrial and technological history.

Author : Marco R. Di Tommaso,Lauretta Rubini,Elisa Barbieri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415684545

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Southern China by Marco R. Di Tommaso,Lauretta Rubini,Elisa Barbieri Pdf

This volume examines contemporary Asian industry, by concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing: Southern China.

Author : Zaixing Liu,Yuwen Wu,Yitong Lian
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822003400363

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The Economic Geography of China by Zaixing Liu,Yuwen Wu,Yitong Lian Pdf

China has abundant natural resources, and favourable natural conditions to exploit them within the framework of a socialist economy. This book describes the evolution of China's present system of production, analysing the factors that have contributed to changes in the system, particularlysince the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. The authors examine the major achievements and problems in economic development and in the distribution of the forces of production.First published in Chinese in 1983 by Commercial Press, Beijing.

Author : Xinyuan Wang
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781910634622

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Social Media in Industrial China by Xinyuan Wang Pdf

Life outside the mobile phone is unbearable.’ Lily, 19, factory worker. Described as the biggest migration in human history, an estimated 250 million Chinese people have left their villages in recent decades to live and work in urban areas. Xinyuan Wang spent 15 months living among a community of these migrants in a small factory town in southeast China to track their use of social media. It was here she witnessed a second migration taking place: a movement from offline to online. As Wang argues, this is not simply a convenient analogy but represents the convergence of two phenomena as profound and consequential as each other, where the online world now provides a home for the migrant workers who feel otherwise ‘homeless’. Wang’s fascinating study explores the full range of preconceptions commonly held about Chinese people – their relationship with education, with family, with politics, with ‘home’ – and argues why, for this vast population, it is time to reassess what we think we know about contemporary China and the evolving role of social media.

Author : Andrew M. Marton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136359774

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China's Spatial Economic Development by Andrew M. Marton Pdf

The spatial patterns of China's rapid economic transformation fundamentally challenge conventional geographies of urban and regional development. This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi Delta, as well as a new analytical framework for understanding China's unique form of economic modernization.

Author : Yi Liu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811542978

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Local Dynamics of Industrial Upgrading by Yi Liu Pdf

This book examines industrial upgrading in China’s Pearl River Delta (PRD), with a specific focus on how strategic coupling impacts industrial upgrading from the perspective of relational economic geography. It shows that firms in the PRD have been struggling after serving as low-tier suppliers and subcontractors for transnational corporations for two decades, since the 1980s opening reform in China. Indigenous innovation and direct state support have fostered the success of a few firms, but not the majority. In response, many local firms are now taking advantage of the opportunities to be found in global production networks, which link the PRD with the global economy. This book elaborates on how these opportunities are embedded and identified in global production networks with regard to different types of strategic coupling. It not only renews the theory of strategic coupling in economic geography, but also demonstrates potential strategies that latecomer firms can pursue, and which can have major implications for many developing countries and regions.

Author : Grace L K Leung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351655019

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Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong by Grace L K Leung Pdf

The experience of Hong Kong’s innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese and Asian cities that are actively developing their innovative and creative industries in the era of globalization. The return of sovereignty over Hong Kong back to China in 1997 has led to both collaboration and competition between the two places in innovative and creative sectors for the Greater China and Asian Regions. Hong Kong has remained unique in spite of the integration, but she has to strike a delicate balance between being simultaneously a Chinese and an international city. This book looks at different innovative and creative industries, such as international art and culture exhibition, innovative technology, digital entertainment, TV and movies, as well as government policy for innovative and creative industries, particularly the changing competitive landscape brought about by the latest Great Bay Area development. Drawing insights from cultural history, innovation economics, cultural policy studies, and cultural geography, this book explores the opportunities and challenges of Hong Kong's innovative and creative industries, in particular after the change of sovereignty in 1997. It demonstrates that the city’s legacy, and heavy government input in capital, do not guarantee their sustainable development. This is a book not only for policymakers or academics interested in innovative and creative industries but also to students contemplating a career in these areas in Hong Kong, the Greater China and the Asian Region.