List of Figures, Maps and Tables
Preface
Introduction: Negotiating Geographical Knowledges: Region of Reform
Representing South China: Special Zone 'Experiment' Meets 'Miracle' Development
Area Studies Debates: China's 'Response to the West'
Restructuring Area Studies
China Area Studies and the 'Macroregion'
Transboundary Cultural Economy
Region, Place / Space, and Scale: Scaling Social Processes
Contextual Geographics
Region and Representations: Geographical Representations: Northern Vantage
Coastal Imaginaries
Coming into Difference
Rewriting South China: Bai Yue
Kingdom of Chu
Region as Greater China: Myth of 'Ungrounded Empire'
Transboundary Economies and the Territorial Trap
History of the North and the South
Regional Thinking
Maritime Frontier / Mercantile Region: Region and Nature-Society Relations
Fringe of Empire
Early Coastal Settlement: Cities of Min
Quanzhou and Ningbo
The Deltas and Land Reclamation
Mercantile Region: The Zheng He Voyages
Zheng He and Tianhou
The Amoy Network
The Junk Trade
Open Ports and the Treaty System: 'Semicolonialism': The Treaty Settlements
Opium for Tea
The Open Ports: Foreign Settlement
The Spirit of Min
Commercial Organization:
Ningbo: The Pivotal Port
Xiamen: Remittance Economies
Infrastructural Development: Rebuilding Xiamen
Mercantile Society and Mercantile Cities
Revolution and Diaspora: The Southern Revolutionary Axis: From Guangzhou to Shanghai
Revolution and the Overseas Chinese
Southeast Asian Chinese Communities
Malaysia and the National Culture Debates
Melaka: The Bukit China Movement:
Rise of a Social Movement
Region as Homeland
Negotiating Absolute Space
The Social Construction of Place
Constructing the Nationscape
Place and National Culture
Gendered Industrialization:
Who Cares?: Regional Economy
Engendering Industrialization: Male Bias in the Development Process
Gendered Reform Policies: Rural Reform and the Feminization of the Agricultural Labor Force
The Export-Oriented Industrialization Regime
The New Services Sector: Prostitution
Redirections
Zone Fever:
The Proliferation of Special Development Zones: 'Model' Development
The Land Conversion Moratorium
Rapid Development and the 'Arable Land Problem': Policy Shifts and Arable Land Loss
The Contradictions: Administrative Hierarchy Contradictions
Land Monitoring Contradictions
Rural-Urban Contradictions
Real Estate Fever and Financial Collapse
Urban Triumphant: 1997 and the Hong Kong Handover:
One Country, All Kinds of Systems
Geographies of Globalization: Cosmopolitics
Property Development in Hong Kong
Exhibitionary Complex
New Environmental Movements
Rebuilding Shanghai
New Cosmopolitanisms?
Globalizing Cities
Epilogue:.Region and Globalization
Region, State and Identity
Index