China's Spatial Economic Development: Regional Transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta

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ISBN: 9780415227797 | 0415227798
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/21/2000

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The spatial patterns of China's rapid economic transformation fundamentally challenge conventional geographies of urban and regional development. This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi Delta, as well as a new analytical framework for understanding China's unique form of economic modernization.

Plates

Figures

Maps

xii

Tables

xiii

Preface

Romanization

xviii

Abbreviations

xix

Penglang

xxi

Introduction

(24)

Rationale, scope and objectives

(2)

The lower Yangzi delta region and Kunshan

(6)

Redefining a new critical regional geography

(5)

Development theory in crisis: beyond the impasse

(4)

Issues and methodology

(2)

Organization of the book

(5)

Regional development and industrialization: towards mega-urbanization

(32)

Confronting the post-modern void in China: taking diversity seriously

(2)

Linkages and the transactional revolution

(2)

A new geography of production: making space for place

(5)

Cities, towns and rural transformation: the Chinese development debate

(7)

Rural and urban in China's regional development: seeking a middle ground

(3)

Mega-urbanization in the lower Yangzi delta: enterprise location and the reconstitution of local space

(12)

The lower Yangzi delta: historical geography and contemporary patters of change

(40)

The lower Yangzi delta from the Late Imperial period

(5)

Pre-reform political economy

(3)

Reforms and transformation in the rural economy

(12)

Spatial economic patterns in the lower Yangzi delta

(8)

At the edge of Shanghai: Kunshan to the fore

(11)

Transforming the Kunshan countryside: structure of local government and relationship to enterprises

(34)

Bifurcation of the functions of local government

(13)

Spatial proliferation of enterprises

111

(4)

Formalizing local institutional structurs in a partially reformed command economy

115

(9)

Socialist new rural area with Chinese characteristics

124

(7)

Restless landscapes: the local character of spatial change

131

(29)

Transportation

131

(10)

Dianshanhu Town

141

(5)

Tongxin Village

146

(4)

Specialized development zones

150

(10)

Linkages and the location of non-agricultural production

160

(20)

Investment in local development

160

(5)

Ownership, land and labour

165

(3)

Enterprise procurement, marketing and management

168

(8)

Transactional environment

176

(4)

Mega-urbanization in the lower Yangzi delta: theoretical and policy challenges and responses

180

(22)

Negotiating and managing the regional transformation: institutional parameters and rural agglomeration

181

(6)

Theoretical implications: urban transition or regional resilience?

187

(6)

Planning and management agenda: Chinese solutions for Chinese problems

193

(9)

Appendix 1: Notes on Chinese statistical sources

202

(4)

Appendix 2: Structure of Chinese administrative divisions

206

(4)

Glossary of Chinese terms

210

(4)

Bibliography

214

(17)

Index

231

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China's Spatial Economic Development: Regional Transformation in the Lower Yangzi Delta

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