Andrew M. Marton

China's Spatial Economic Development (eBook, ePUB)

Regional Transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136359842
• Artikelnr.: 40171590

Autorenporträt

Andrew M. Marton is Reader in Chinese Geography in the Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham. He has contributed articles to numerous journals, including Asian Geographer and Pacific Affairs, and to the recent edited volumes Rural-Urban Transition and Development in China, and Hong Kong in China

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Introduction 1.1 Rationale, Scope and Objectives 1.2 Redefining
a New Critical Regional Geography 1.2.1 Chinese Landscapes of
Transformation and the Representation of Place 1.2.2 Regional Geography: As
Method and as Theory 1.3 The Lower Yangzi Delta Region and Kunshan 1.4
Issues and Methodology 1.5 Organization of the Book Chapter 2. Regional
Development and Industrialization: Towards Mega-Urbanization 2.1
Development Theory in Crisis: Beyond the Impasse 2.2 Confronting the
Post-Modern Void: Taking Diversity Seriously 2.3 Linkages and the
Transactional Revolution 2.4 A New Geography of Production: Making Space
for Place 2.5 Cities, Towns, and Rural Transformation: The Chinese
Development Debate 2.6 Rural and Urban in China's Regional Development:
Seeking a Middle Ground 2.7 Mega-Urbanization in the Lower Yangzi Delta:
Enterprise Location and the Reconstruction of Local Space Chapter 3. The
Lower Yangzi Delta: Historical Geography and Contemporary Patterns of
Change 3.1 The Lower Yangzi Delta From the Late Imperial Period 3.1.1
Natural Environment and Spatial Economic Structure 3.1.2 Rural-Urban
Relations and the Urban Penumbra 3.2 Pre-Reform Political Economy 3.3
Reforms and Transformations in the Rural Economy 3.3.1 Changes in
Agriculture 3.3.2 Township and Village Enterprises: New Shapes, Old
Patterns 3.4 Spatial Economic Patterns in the Lower Yangzi Delta 3.5 At the
Edge of Shanghai: Kunshan to the Fore Chapter 4. Structure of Local
Government and Relationship to Enterprises 4.1 Bifurcation of the Functions
of Local Government 4.1.1 Community Administration 4.1.2 Ownership and
Management of Enterprises 4.2 Spatial Proliferation on Non-Agricultural
Activities 4.3 Formalizing Local Institutional Structures in a Partially
Reformed Command Economy 4.3.1 Capitalism With Chinese Characteristics
4.3.2 Individual Interactions and Interrelationships 4.3.3 Horizontal and
Vertical Linkages 4.3.4 Economic Cooperation Commission 4.4 Socialist New
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