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Guangdong

Survey of a Province Undergoing Rapid Change (Second Edition)

Y. M. Yeung, David K. Y. Chu


English , 1998/03 The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Tags: China Studies

229 x 152 mm , 554pp ISBN / ISSN : 978-962-201-769-6

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Guangdong, capitalizing on its traditional role as China's gateway to the outside world and its proximity to Hong Kong and Macau, has witnessed momentous and fundamental changes since 1978. The province has raced ahead in rapid economic development and physical transformation, reaping the largest dividends in China's open policy and economic reforms. So rapidly has Guangdong developed during the last decade that it has set for itself the target of becoming another little dragon of Asia. This volume addresses the processes, outcomes and meanings of the rapidity of physical and socioeconomic transformation in Guangdong across a wide spectrum of subjects. Undertaken almost exclusively by academics in Hong Kong, this book-length study of Guangdong is a major contribution in our quest for a better understanding of China's modernization and development programmes through its multifaceted experimentation in the southerly province.

Y. M. Yeung is Professor of Geography, Director of the Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies and Head of Shaw College, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His wide-ranging research interests have recently focused on China's coastal cities, South China, globalization and Asian cities. He has published extensively and his recent works include: Shanghai (1996) and Guangdong (1998), also published by The Chinese University Press.

David K. Y. Chu obtained his Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and was formerly Professor in the Department of Geography, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has published many articles and book chapters on the port of Hong Kong and China's special economic zones.

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