China In The Post-utopian Age

Christopher J Smith (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

648 Seiten

2000
Westview Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-8133-1986-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Informed by a geographers perspective, this text portrays a vast country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social interaction, where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply, and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics. }Since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, critical changes have swept all levels of Chinese society. This text, which views contemporary China from a geographers perspective, assesses the questions inherent insuch rapid evolution. how do the Chinese manage to provide enough food for more than a billion people? In what ways are they restructuring and modernizing their economy? How have they been able to provide mass access to such services as health care, education, and housing? The author also delves into the relatively unexplored realm of everyday life in the new China. Why do so many want to leave the countryside and move to the cities? how has life changed for women after centures of Confucian oppression in China? And what does the future hold for Chinas many ethnic minority groups?By providing answers to questions such as these, the book illustrates the centrality of geography to the study of China--a country where distance still acts as a major constraint on social and spatial interaction; where the population is so huge that demand for resources almost always outstrips supply; and where regional variations have produced a rich mosaic of human and physical characteristics.
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Autor

Christopher J. Smith is associate professor of Geography and Planning at the State University of New York at Albany.

Inhalt

Part 1: Introduction; China in the Post-Utopian Age; China and the Geographical Imagination; Part 2: Space, Society, and the State in China; Culture Change in Contemporary China; Chinas Political Economy and the Transition Out of Socialism; Chinas Population: Resistance, Compliance, and the National Interest; Life, Death, and the Commodification of Health Care in China; Part 3: The Four Modernizations: Chinas Economic and Spatial Transition; Agrarian Reform in China: Feeding the Billion-Plus; Chinas Economy in the Transition from Plan to Market; The Worlds Most Rapidly Urbanizing Nation; Inequality and Persistent Poverty in China; The Other Chinas: Taiwan and Hong Kong; Part; 4: Contested Lives and Landscapes in Contemporary China; Chinas Minorities: Ethnicity, Accommodation, and Resistance; Gender Issues in the Transition Out of Socialism; Serving the People? Private Versus Public Provision in Chinas Cities; Market Forces and the New Population Mobility in China; Part 5: State and Society in China at the End of Millennium; Saving the Bad Earth? Chinas Environmental Crisis; China and the Global Economy at the Centurys End; State-Society Relationships in the; Post-Utopian Age; Utopia and Dreams of Heaven in the New Millennium?; Notes.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.6.2000
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 178 x 254 mm
• Themenwelt: Reiseführer ► Asien ► China
• ISBN-10: 0-8133-1986-2 / 0813319862
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8133-1986-5 / 9780813319865
• Zustand: Neuware