CHANGING CHINA: A GEOGRAPHICAL APPRAISAL
Chiao-min Hsieh, Max Lu
Editors
Westview Press
2001
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.