Description
Book SynopsisThis 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
Trade Review"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
Table of ContentsList 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.
