China's Regions, Polity and Economy

by Tang, Wing-Shing

• ISBN13: 9789622018549
• ISBN10: 9622018548
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Chinese Univ Pr

Summary

This book is organized around different spatial scales. It investigates how the Chinese socialist state under reform affects, influences, and controls the activity spaces of different members of society, thereby transforming the economy and society at the regional province (and its larger spatial unit), the city, the village, the factory, and the individual levels. This way of addressing China's spatial development is new to the literature. The book accomplishes this task by drawing on a variety of experts from different disciplines, including geography, sociology, economics, anthropology, political science, and urban and regional studies. Different in approaches, these experts enrich the volume by providing many in-depth analyses of thc development problems of China.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Section I An Introduction to a Spatial Perspective
Space, Place, and Region and the Study of Contemporary China	3	(32)
Wing-shing Tang
Si-ming Li
Reginald Yin-wang Kwok
Section II Foreign Investment and Regional Development
Foreign Investment and Urban Development in China	35	(30)
Anthony Gar-on Yeh
The Emergence of Local Capitalisms in China: Overseas Chinese Investment and Patterns of Development	65	(32)
Alan Smart
Japanese Investment in China: A Glo-cal Perspective	97	(36)
Chiwai Cheung
Kwan-yiu Wong
The Impact of Mainland China's Open-door Policy on Regional Industrial Development	133	(22)
Sze-yueh Wang
Lee-in Chen Chiu
Section III Government Policies and Regional Development
China's Changing Spatial Disparities: A Review of Empirical Evidence	155	(32)
Si-ming Li
Regional Implications of Central vs. Local Resource Control under Chinese Reforms	187	(30)
Qingsheng Zhou
Chung-tong Wu
The Dynamic Relationship between the Central Government and Local Authorities in Orienting Foreign Direct Investment: A Case Study of the Automotive Industry	217	(30)
James Jixian Wang
Weidong Liu
Section IV Spatial Transformation at the Urban and Rural Levels
Time Space Compression in the Zhujiang Delta: A Case Study of Panyu	247	(28)
George Chu-sheng Lin
Urban-rural Transition in China: Beyond the Desakota Model	275	(34)
Wing-shing Tang
Him Chung
Launching Satellites: Predatory Land Policy and Forged Industrialization in Interior China	309	(42)
Jieh-min Wu
Shrinking Farmland in the Pearl River Delta Region of China: Institutional Factors	351	(20)
K. K. Wong
Simon X. B. Zhao
Section V Adjustments at the Level of the Individual
Modernization from a Grassroots Perspective: Women Workers in Shekou Industrial Zone	371	(20)
Siumi Maria Tam
Is Development the Best Contraceptive? An Examination of the Relationship between Economic Development and Fertility in Two Counties in Guangdong	391	(12)
Yat-ming Siu
Contributors	403	(4)
Index	407