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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.
Contents
List of Figures, Photos, and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction: China's Path and Progress
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
2 Physical Geographies: Landscapes of Diversity
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
3 History: Ancient Roots and Binding Traditions
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
4 Politics: The Central Kingdom in a Globalized World
Clifton W. Pannell and Gregory Veeck
5 Cities: The Road to an Urban Revolution
Youqin Huang
6 Population: Demographic Changes and Challenges
Xiaoping Shen
7 Inequality: Rising Social, Economic, and Spatial Divides
Youqin Huang
8 Economy: China's Changing Economic Geography
Clifton W. Pannell and Gregory Veeck
9 Agriculture: From Antiquity to Revolution to Reform
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
10 Industry and Energy: A Geohistorical Survey
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
11 Trade and Transportation: New Pillars of Growth
Xiaoping Shen
12 The Environment: Crises and Responses
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
13 Taiwan: An Enduring East Asian Miracle
Gregory Veeck and Clifton W. Pannell
14 Hong Kong and Macau: Postcolonial Futures
Clifton W. Pannell and Gregory Veeck
Index
About the Authors
