The Changing Geography Of China Book

	List of Tables
	List of Figures
	List of Plates
1	China of Many Faces	1
	China's Status in Eurasia	1
	China as a Homeland of Humanity	3
	China as a Socialist Country	3
	China as a Colonial Power	5
	China as a Less Developed Country	5
	Studying China	7
2	Resources and the Physical Environment	11
	Abundance of Resources, Superabundance of People	11
	The Foundations of Environment	12
	Water Resources	16
	Energy Resources	20
	An Energy 'Crisis'	27
	Minerals Apart from Fuels	28
	Accessibility in China	29
	The Wild Environments and the Forests	31
	Pollution	33
3	The Historic Foundations of Contemporary Change	35
	Origins and Foundations	35
	Neighbours of China to North and South	37
	The Centre of Gravity of the Empire	42
	The Chinese Population Explosion	43
	The Expansion of Food Production	45
	The Mature Empire	47
	Settlement of New Land	49
	The Jiangnan Industrial Economy	52
	Origins and Foundations of Contemporary China	53
4	Structures and Determinants in the People's Republic	56
	Policy since 1949	56
	Population and Population Policy	59
	Investment History	63
	Regional Structure	65
	Official Management in China	69
	The Economic and Political Climate	71
5	The Countryside - Rural Development and Rural Problems	73
	Fundamentals	73
	Cropping systems	79
	Yields of Grain	82
	Commodity Grain Bases: Surplus, Self-sufficiency and Deficit of Grain	85
	The Agricultural System since 1979 - Achievements and Problems	89
	Specialisms in the Countryside	94
	Rural Industry and Other Rural Enterprises ('Township Enterprises')	101
	The Status of Rural Industry and Diversified Production	105
	Limitations in Peasant Society	107
	A New Generation of Rural Problems	108
6	The Industrial System and the State Economy	112
	Industrial Growth	112
	Strengths and Weaknesses of the Official System	116
	Industrial Regions	120
	Problems of Productivity in Industry	123
	Industrial Production in the Regions	126
	Organization within the State Industrial System	131
7	Urban China	134
	The Scale of Urbanization	134
	The Urban Landscape	135
	Urban Planning	137
	Urban Housing	141
	Small Towns	142
	Rural-Urban Relations	146
	The Strength of the Cities	147
	Commerce and the Service Economy	150
	Migration and the New Urbanization	153
8	Features of Regional Change	156
	Prosperity and Poverty - Regional Patterns	156
	Polarization in the Countryside - Current Chinese Thinking	170
	Some Regional Examples	171
9	Retrospect and Prospect	181
	Resource Scarcity for Ever?	181
	The Modernization Possibilities	183
	References	185
	Index	213