Globalizing South China / Edition 1

by Carolyn Cartier

Overview

This insightful account demonstrates that capitalism in China has a history and a geography, and combines perspectives from both to demonstrate that regional economic restructuring in South China is far from an economic 'miracle's.

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AREA:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0004-0894

The Geographical Journal:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0016-7398

Transactions of the Insititute of British Geographers:

http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0020-2754

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557868879
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/21/2002
Series:	RGS-IBG Book Series
Pages:	340
Product dimensions:	6.32(w) x 9.24(h) x 1.16(d)

About the Author

Carolyn Cartier is assistant Professor of Geography at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

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Table of Contents

List of Plates.

List of Figures and Tables.

List of Maps.

Series Editors' Preface.

Preface.

Chapter 1 Negotiating Geographical Knowledges.

Chapter 2 Region and Representation.

Chapter 3 Maritime Frontier/Mercantile Region.

Chapter 4 Open Ports and the Treaty System.

Chapter 5 Revolution and Diaspora.

Chapter 6 Gendered Industrialization.

Chapter 7 Zone Fever.

Chapter 8 Urban Triumphant.

Epilogue.

References.

Index.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Relying on a wide grounding in the historical literature as well as a specialist's sense of spatial history, [Cartier] offers nuanced, often fascinating portraits of South China's economic and cultural dynamism." Choice

"The book has broken new ground in promoting the study and understanding of urban and regional development and also China study. With the meticulous evaluation of research materials under the contextualist approach, Globalizing South China exhibits a high standard of scholarship and intellectual sophistication." Journal of Oriental Studies