CHANGING CHINA: A GEOGRAPHICAL APPRAISAL





Chiao-min Hsieh, Max Lu



Editors







Westview Press



2001



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TABLE OF CONTENTS



CONTRIBUTORS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. The Changing Geographies of China: A Giant in Transition Max Lu

PART I. ECONOMIC CHANGES

2. Landuse Pattern and Landuse Change Liping Di

3. Diminishing Cropland and Agricultural Outlook Clifton W. Pannell, Runsheng Yin

4. Agricultural Growth and Food Supply Jianfa Shen

5. Agricultural Surplus Labor Transfer Sun Sheng Han

6. Policies and Spatial Changes of Industrial Development Lu Dadao

7. Changes in China's Space Economy Since the Reform Max Lu

8. Locational and Sectoral Composition of Foreign Direct Investment

In the North China Coastal Region Chi Kin Leung

9. From Special Economic Zones to Special Technological Zones Shuguang Wang

10. Sustainable Development in the Yangtze Delta Ren Mei-e

11. China in the Pacific Rim: Trade and Investment Links Gang Xu



Part II. SOCIAL CHANGES

12. The Change of Chinese Population: Demography, New Pattern

of Distribution and Government Policy Chiao-min Hsieh

13. Population Characteristics and Ethnic Diversity David W.S. Wong, Kevin Matthews

14. Internal Migration Kam Wing Chan

15. Gender Differences in Chinese Migration C. Cindy Fan

16. Engendering Industrialization in China Under Reform Carolyn Cartier

17. Growth and Management of Large Cities Yehua Dennis Wei

18. Suburbanization in Beijing Yixing Zhou, Fahui Wang

19. Village Transformation in Taiwan and Fujian Ronald Knapp



PART III. CHANGES ALONG CHINA'S PERIPHERIES

20. The Returning of Hong Kong: Liabilities or Assets? C.P. Lo

21. Taiwan and Mainland China: Divided or United? Chiao-min Hsieh

22. The Geography and Political Economics of Inner Mongolia Beyond 2000 Robert W. McColl

23. Xinjiang (Eastern Turkistan): Names, Regions, Landscapes, and Future Stanley W. Toops

24. China's Changing Boundaries Chiao-min Hsieh

25. Province, Nation and the Chinese Mega-State Charles Greer

26. China Enters the 21st Century: An Epilogue Chiao-min Hsieh

CHRONOLOGY

GLOSSARY

INDEX



CONTRIBUTORS

Carolyn L. Cartier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Kam Wing Chan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A.

Liping Di is a Chief Scientist at Raytheon STX Corporation, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A.

C. Cindy Fan is an Associate Professor of geography at University of California - Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Charles Greer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, Indiana University, Bloomington, U.S.A.

Chiao-min Hsieh is a Professor Emeritus of Geography at the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Sun Sheng Han is a Lecturer in the School of Building and Real Estate, National University of Singapore.

Ronald G. Knapp is a Professor in the Department of Geography, State University of New York at New Paltz, U.S.A.

Chi Kin Leung is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, California State University-Fresno, U.S.A.

C.P. Lo is a Professor of geography in the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

Dadao Lu is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Geography, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.

Max Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, U.S.A.

Kevin Matthews is a graduate student in the Department of Geography and Earth Science at George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.

Robert McColl is a Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.A.

Clifton W. Pannell is a Professor of geography and associate dean of the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

Mei-e Ren is a Professor and Honorary Chair in the Department of Geography, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Jianfa Shen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and research fellow at the Center for Environmental Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, China.

Stanley Toops is an Associate Professor of geography and the director of International Studies at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, U.S.A.

Fahui Wang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, U.S.A.

Shuguang Wang is an Assistant Professor of geography in the School of Applied Geography, Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, Canada.

Yehua Dennis Wei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, U.S.A.

David Wong is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Earth Systems Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, U.S.A.

Gang Xu is a Lecturer in the Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Runsheng Yin is an Assistant Professor of forest economics in the Warnell School of Forest Resources at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A.

Yi-xing Zhou is a Professor of geography at Peking University, Beijing, China.