Changing China
Subtitle: A Geographical Appraisal
Contributors: Chiao-Min Hsieh (Editor); Max Lu (Editor)
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: August 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780813334738
Subjects: Development studies; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Political geography; TRAVEL & HOLIDAY; History: World; China; Science; 1976-2000; Anthropology - General; Earth Sciences - Geography; Economic policy; Social conditions
First sentence: In 1978, the Chinese government launched its ambitious economic reform and opened the country to the outside world after nearly thirty years of rigid, Soviet-style development.