Understanding the Chinese Economies

Rongxing Guo ()

in Elsevier Monographs from Elsevier, currently edited by Candice Janco

Abstract: China's economic growth has been more robust in some regions than others. In a country as large as China, examinations of regional differences can provide a viable way to learn about the economy as a whole. Rongxing Guo provides a systematic introduction to the economies of China by describing their external and internal drivers and by placing them within geopolitical and even socio-cultural boundaries. His pairings of case studies and empirical techniques reveal a rich, deep appreciation of the growth process and of interactions between key factors. This book delves more deeply into issues surrounding the economy than other books, offering a unique and important perspective that many will find useful. Covering history and administrative structures, unique economic features, some domestic economic issues, and international economic engagement, it describes an often inaccessible perspective with nuances all students of China will find valuable Introduces China’s regional economies, often overlooked in US and European texts within larger contexts of social and geopolitical concerns Explains the reform process since 1978 in a comprehensive, non-technical, and accessible manner Features case studies in each chapter

Keywords: administrative barriers; administrative divisions; administrative efficiency; agricultural reforms; authoritarianism; banking system; centrally planned economy; Chinese characteristics; Chinese civilization; Chinese Communist Party (CCP); Chinese culture; Chinese dynasties; Chinese economic reforms; Chinese economy; Chinese history; Chinese-speaking world; coal; Coastal Area Development Strategy; coastal economic development zone (EDZ); collectivism; corruption control; cross-Strait economic relations; cultural contexts; cultural diversity; currency convertibility; decentralization of authority; dialects; distribution of resources; double track system; economic area; Economic development; economic growth; economic reform; education; emigration; energy; environmental policy; environmental resources; ethno-cultural areas; ethno-cultural barriers; Five-Year Plan; foreign direct investment; foreign invested enterprises; foreign loans; foreign trade; free market; fresh water; geographical barriers; geographical belts; Gini coefficient; going out strategy; governance; gradual/partial reform; great regions; Great Wall; Greater China; groundwater; Han; Hong Kong; Hua-Xia; Human contexts; hydropower; income; income inequality; income redistribution; individualism; Industrialization; innovation; intellectual property rights; inter-cultural communication; international competitiveness; interprovincial differences; Jin; joint venture; labor and employment; labor force; language; legal system; living standards; location quotient; Macau; macroeconomic performance; material product system; mineral resources; Ming; multiregional differences; multiregional economic comparison; multiregional economic cooperation; natural gas reserves; Natural resources; Open-door policy; outward development strategy; outward direct investment; overseas Chinese; ownership of the means of production; petroleum reserves; Political system; population; population control; poverty alleviation; pre-reform era; price release reforms; provincial administrations; public finance; Qin; Qing; radical reform; reform of Chinese bureaucracy; reforming a planned economy; regional development strategies; regional differences in purchasing power; regional economic disparity; regional inequality; rural industrialization; rural-to-urban migration; rural-urban disparity; Shang; socialist market economy; Song; southern and northern parts; Spatial comparative advantages; spatial diseconomies; spatial divisions; spatial economic separation; special economic zone (SEZ); state-controlled market; Statistical systems; Sui; sustainable development; system of national accounts; Taiwan; Tang; tax; technological progress; the North-South Water Transfer Project; the Taiwan Strait; the Terracotta Army; time-series data; trade surplus; water availability; Western Region Development Strategy; wholly foreign-owned entity; World Trade Organization (WTO); WTO; Xia; Yellow River; Yuan; Zhou (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012 Originally published 2012-09-05.
Edition: 1
ISBN: 978-0-12-397826-4
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