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China is the world's fastest-growing economy,
and the second largest trading nation. With its entrepreneurial
outlook and population of 1.3 billion, it offers unique
opportunities for domestic and overseas investors.
Vividly presented through maps and graphics,
this striking atlas profiles a country of marked disparities
-- between urban and rural, east and west, rich and poor
-- and charts the profound changes taking place within China
as well as their implications for the world at large. Topics
include:
- Trade and investment
- International relations
- Private ownership and entrepreneurs
- Media and telecommunications
- Military power
- Migration and urbanization
- Ageing and dependency
- Social and economic inequality
- Tourism
- Human rights
Stephanie Hemelryk Donald is Professor
of Communication and Culture, and Director of Transforming
Cultures at the Centre for Communication and Culture, University
of Technology, Sydney, Australia. She is author of Public
Spaces, Public Secrets: Cinema and Civility in China
and Little Friends: Children's Film and Media Culture
in China. She also co-authored The Penguin Atlas
of Media and Information, and co-edited Media in
China: Consumption, Content and Crisis. She is Series
Editor of the RoutledgeCurzon series, "Media, Society
and Change in Asia-Pacific."
Robert Benewick is Research Professor
in the Department of International Relations, University
of Sussex, and a Visiting Fellow in the Centre for the Study
of Democracy, Westminster University, London. His recent
publications include Asian Politics in Development
with Marc Blecher and Sarah Cook (eds.), Contemporary
China with Paul Wingrove, and papers in China Information
and Community Construction in China.
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