Author Description

Despite China's obvious and growing importance on the world stage, it is often and easily misunderstood. Indeed, there are many Chinas, as this comprehensive survey of contemporary China vividly illustrates. Now in a thoroughly revised and updated third edition that offers the only sustained geography of the reform era, this book traces the changes occurring in this powerful and ancient nation across both time and space. Through clear prose and new, dynamic maps and photos, China's Geography illustrates and explains the great differences in economy, politics, and society found throughout China's many regions.