Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta / George C.S. Lin

Lin, George C.S. [ Lin, Chusheng ]

ISBN 10: 0774806176 / ISBN 13: 9780774806176

Published by UBC Press (1997), Vancouver, 1997

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23x15cm, xii,219 pp., PAPERBACK. "Red Capitalism in South China is the best account to date of change in the Pearl River Delta. It examines a phenomenon that is important not only because of the speed, extent, and magnitude of the changes taking place but also because the delta s patterns of growth and development are distinct from those of the Western capitalist world and the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. In addition, Lin offers significant insights into how a regional socialist economy is transformed after the intrusion of global market forces" - publisher's description. [Contents : 1. Introduction -- pt. 1. National Context. 2. The Operating System of Spatial Transformation. 3. Maoist Plan-Ideological Space. 4. Post-Mao Market-Regulatory Space -- pt. 2. Development of the Pearl River Delta. 5. Economic and Spatial Transformation. 6. Rural Industrialization. 7. Transport Development. 8. Influence of Hong Kong. 9. Conclusion.].

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta / George C.S. Lin
• Publisher: UBC Press (1997), Vancouver
• Publication Date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0774806176
• ISBN 13: 9780774806176
• Binding: orig. wrappers
• Condition: Minor rubbing. VG.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Chinese Economic History

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Synopsis

This book describes the dramatic economic and spatial transformation in China’s Pearl River Delta region over the past decade. Reforms introduced by the Chinese government since 1978 were the cause of this transformation. The Pearl River Delta has had the highest recorded rate of economic growth in East Asia and has done so through a pattern of development which differed significantly from that found in other regions of fast growth. George Lin reviews the processes by which this remarkable transformation was achieved and discusses the implications of such change. Red Capitalism in South China looks at theories of regional development and the patterns of spatial and economic restructuring in the Delta, and provides three case studies which focus on the transformation of the peasant economy, transport development, and the influence of Hong Kong.

About the Author

George C.S. Lin is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography, The University of Hong Kong