Guangdong: Province Undergoing Rapid Change: Preparing for the WTO Challenge - Hardcover

Yeung, Y.M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 962201769X ISBN 13: 9789622017696

Publisher: The Chinese University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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.

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Review

Joseph Cheng has brought together a wide range of authoritative expertise to investigate some of the key economic and social issues that will have to be addressed. . . . The papers represent academic analysis at its best.

About the Author

Joseph Y. S. Cheng is Professor of Political Science and Director of Contemporary China Research Centre, City University of Hong Kong. He is also the founding editor of the Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Chinese University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 962201769X
• ISBN 13: 9789622017696
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 554