China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change
Department
Geography
Document Type
Book
Files
Description
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 edition that 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 context as 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 great differences in economy and culture found throughout China's many regions.
3rd. edition.
Call number in WMU's library
DS706 .C51138 2011 (WMU Authors Collection)
ISBN
9780742567825
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
City
Lanham, MD
Keywords
geography, Chinese history, Chinese politics, China
Disciplines
Asian History | Geography
Recommended Citation
Veeck, Gregory; Smith, Christopher; Pannell, Clifton; and Huang, Youqin, "China's Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic, and Social Change" (2011). All Books and Monographs by WMU Authors. 50.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/books/50