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The Geography of Contemporary China: Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade

The Geography of Contemporary China: Impact of Deng Xiaoping's Decade

by Alan Jenkins (Editor), TerryCannon (Editor)

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    Paperback 1990

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Synopsis

Deng Xiaoping's rule has seen fundamental economic change in China. This book considers the impact of these years on China's physical environment, as well as its people, industry, agriculture and trade. It also assesses the contribution of a decade of Chinese politics towards geopolitics. The book provides an introduction to Communist China, setting its spatial and environmental themes in the historical, political and economic framework so crucial to a proper understanding of this country and the fifth of the world's population it contains. It is particularly suited to courses on China, its geography and development strategy. After the bloody events of Tiananmen Square in June 1989 China's geopolitics will continue to hold the world's attention. With this in view the book also provides guides to further reading.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 328
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 02 Aug 1990
ISBN 10: 041500103X
ISBN 13: 9780415001038

Media Reviews
This is a valuable and timely text which fills a gap that has existed since 1985 . . . it is invaluable as an over-view of development planning problems within a socialist framework in a Third World context, and not only for China specialists for whom it is plainly indispensable.
- Geography
. . . a concise and stimulating introduction for anybody interested in the broader implications of the present modernization efforts.
- Asian Affairs
. . . The issues in this volume . . . will challenge the current leadership in the decade ahead, thereby giving this text a life cycle longer than many edited volumes.
- The China Quarterly
. . . provides an introduction to contemporary China and a much-needed survey of the last decade of administrative, demographic, economic, and geopolitical development. . . . I recommend the book to geographers.
- The Professional Geographer
Author Bio
Stewart Riddle is a Senior Lecturer in The School of Education at the University of Southern Queensland. His research interests include social justice and equity in education, music-based research practices and research methodologies. Michael W. Apple is John Bascom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Policy Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written extensively on the relationship between education and power and on the limits and possibilities of education reform. Among his recent books are Can Education Change Society? (2013), The Struggle for Democracy in Education: Lessons from Social Realities (2018), and the 40th anniversary fourth edition of his classic text Ideology and Curriculum (2019).