GRMD2305 Geography of China Ref: Chinat

GRMD2305 Geography of China Ref: Chinat.doc Department of Geography and Resource Management The Chinese University of Hong Kong Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong http://webct.cuhk.edu.hk/

Lecturer: Dr. SHEN Jianfa (Rm 225, Wong Foo Yuan Bldg, ext. 6469, E-mail: [email protected] ) Tutors: Mr. Lo Sai Kuen (Rm 219, FYB Bldg, 26096233, E-mail: [email protected]) Miss GUO Chunlan, Theresa (Rm 221A, FYB Bldg, 26961025, E-mail:[email protected]) ______

GRMD2305 Geography of China

Course content: This course provides a comprehensive and systematic analysis of the topics related to the geography of contemporary China. Both physical and human aspects of China's geography are discussed in the context of changing China in a changing world. Topics discussed include resources, environment; food supply, population; rural reform and development, urbanization, urban reform and globalization, industrialization and regional development.

Schedule

Week Date Topics 1 13/1 China and the World (briefing on China project) 2 20/1 Administrative regions 3 27/1 Changing population 4 3/2 New Year Holiday 5 10/2 Food supply and security 6 17/2 Rural reform and transition 7 24/2 Market reform and the state-owned enterprises 8 3/3 Environment and development in Western China (Mid-term Quiz) 9 10/3 Globalizing China 10 17/3 Chinese urbanization 11 24/3 Regional development policy and regional inequality 12 31/3 Video watching forum 13 7/4 Shanghai and Yangtze River Delta 14 14/4 Hong Kong and Pearl River Delta (with Course Review) 15 21/4 Hong Kong and Shenzhen: intercity competition and cooperation

Learning outcomes: Enable students to acquire specialized knowledge of Geography of China and learn comprehensive approach in the study of China using geographical perspective. Students would develop a good understanding of urban and regional development, development trends and environment, and the impact of globalization on China. Students would develop the ability to analyze and debate various contemporary issues on China confidently. Through various learning activities such as weekly reading, China project and tutorials, the course will enhance students’ capabilities in various skills such as critical thinking, communication skills, data analysis, report writing and self-managed learning.

Learning activities: 2 Lecture-hours/week, China project/tutorials and reading assignment. Introducing the geographical perspective of China studies and various concepts and issues in the study of Geography of China. Using various case studies in various parts of China such as coastal and western regions to illustrate various concepts and issues. Using project, tutorials and reading assignments to encourage students to read references for self-learning and to engage in lively discussion. Using

1 WebCT facility to enhance students’ feedback and exchange between students, tutors and lecturer.

Assessment: Final test 50%, Mid-term quiz 25%, Project/tutorials 25%.

Feedback for evaluation Qualitative feedback from students/tutors via informal interaction/WebCT forum Early and final course evaluation results Student performance in the class and examination

Required readings Williams J F, 2002, Geographers and China, Issues & Studies, 38(4)/39(1), 217- 247(L01P1)#

Cannon T and Jenkins A (eds), 1990, The Geography of Contemporary China, Chapter 11 (Defining and defending the Chinese state: geopolitical perspectives), pp. 266-290. London: Routledge.#

Riley N E, 2004, China’s population: new trends and challenges, Population Bulletin, 59(2), 1-36.#

Brown Lester, 1995, Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Earthscan Publications Ltd, London. Chapter 1 (TX360 C6B 75)#

Muldavin J, 1998, The limits of market triumphalism in rural China, Geoforum, 28(3- 4), 289-312 (LS1P1)#

Li L C, 2004, The prelude to government reform in China? The big sale in Shunde. China Information, XVIII(1), 29-65.#

Becquelin N, 2004, Staged development in Xinjiang, The China Quarterly, 178, 358- 378. #

Hayter R and Han S S, 1998, Reflections on China's open policy towards foreign direct investment, Regional Studies, 32(1), 1-16(LS6P1)#

Wang, Ya Ping and Alan Murie, 1999, Commercial housing development in urban China, Urban Studies, 36 (9), 1475-94.#

Fan C C, 1995, Of belts and ladders: State policy and uneven regional development in post-Mao China, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 85(3), 421-449. (except pp. 434-442) (L09P2)#

Yusuf S and Wu W, 2002, Pathways to a world city: Shanghai rising in an era of globalization. Urban Studies, 39(7), 1213-1240#

Shen J, 2008, Hong Kong under Chinese sovereignty: economic relations with mainland China 1978-2007, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(3), 326-340#

2 Ng M K, 2002, Sustainable urban development issues in Chinese transitional cities: Hong Kong and Shenzhen, International Planning Studies, 7(1), 7-36.#

Recommended readings Hsieh C and Lu M(eds), 2004, Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal. Boulder: Westview Press.

Veeck G, Pannell C W, Smith C J and Huang Y, 2007, China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (DS706 .C51138 2007)

Friedmann J, 2005, China's Urban Transition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. (HT384.C6 F75 2005)

Cannon T and Jenkins A (eds), 1990, The Geography of Contemporary China, London: Routledge. (HC427.92 .G46 1990, CC Reserve)

Cook I G and Murray G, 2001, China's Third Revolution: Tensions in the Transition Towards a Post-communist China. Richmond, Curzon. (DS779.2 .C66 2001, CC Reserve)

Lau C M and Shen J(eds), 2000, China Review 2000, Hong Kong: Chinese University Press. (DS779.2 .C56 2000, CC Reserve)

Smith C, 2000, China in the Post-utopian Age. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press. (HN733.5 .S598 2000, CC Reserve)

Hsieh C and Lu M(eds), 2004, Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal, Chapter 26, pp. 439-446. Boulder: Westview Press.

Seligsohn D, Heilmayr R, Tan X and Weischer, L, 2009, China, the United States, and the Climate Change Challenge (L01P2)

Yetiv S A & Lu C, 2007, China, Global Energy, and the Middle East, The Middle East Journal, 61(2), 199-218.

Friedmann J, 2005, China's Urban Transition, Chapter 6 (The Governance of city- building), 95-116. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (HT384.C6 F75 2005).

Veeck G, Pannell C W, Smith C J and Huang Y, 2007, China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change. Chapter 4 (The Political Geography of Emerging China), pp. 77-100. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (DS706 .C51138 2007).

Veeck G, Pannell C W, Smith C J and Huang Y, 2007, China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change, Chapter 5 (Population and Human Resources), pp. 101-126. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (DS706 .C51138 2007)

3 Shen J, 1998, China's future population and development challenges, The Geographical Journal, 164(1), 32-40.

Banister J, 2004, Shortage of girls in China today, Journal of Population Research, 21(1), 19-45.

Shen J, 2004, Agricultural growth and food supply, in: Hsieh, Chiao-min and Lu, Max(eds), Changing China: A Geographic Appraisal. pp. 47-63. Westview Press, Boulder.

Veeck G, Pannell C W, Smith C J and Huang Y, 2007, China’s Geography: Globalization and the Dynamics of Political, Economic and Social Change. Chapter 8 (Agriculture: from antiquity to revolution to reform), pp. 205-232. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (DS706 .C51138 2007)

Ash R F, 1992, The agricultural sector in China: performances and policy dilemmas during the 1990s, China Quarterly, No. 131, 545-576 (DS701. C472 UL)

Lin G C S, 1997, Red Capitalism in South China: Growth and Development of the Pearl River Delta, Chapter 6 (Rural industrialization), Vancouver: UBC Press

Wu Zengxian, 1997, How successful has state-owned enterprise reform been in China? Europe - Asia Studies, 49(7), 1237-1262 (LS3P3).

Meng Xin, 1998, Recent developments in China's labour market, China Update Conference Papers 1998, The Australian National University (LS3P2 , course website).

Cook I G and Murray G, 2001, China’s Third Revolution, Chapter 9 (Environmental Deterioration: Can the Environment Recover?), Curzon, Surrey

Lai H H, 2002, China’s western development program: its rationale, implementation, and prospects, Modern China, 28(4), 432-466

Edmonds R L, 1994, Patterns of China's Lost Harmony: a Survey of the Country's Environmental Degradation and Protection, Chapters 4 and 5. Routledge, London

Zhang J, 2000, Sino-US trade issues after the WTO deal: a Chinese perspective, Journal of Contemporary China, 9(24), 309-322 (LS6P2)

Xiao G and Fang Z, 2000, WTO and China's economic transformation: institutional perspectives and policy options. In: Lau C M and Shen J(eds), China Review 2000, pp. 209-222. Chinese University Press, Hong Kong.

Cheng S & Stough R R, 2008, The Pattern and Magnitude of China Outward FDI in Asia, In: Rajan R S, Kumar R, Virgill N (ed), New Dimensions of Economic Globalization: Surge of Outward Foreign Direct Investment from Asia, Chapter 5, pp. 115-140. Singapore: World Scientific (HG5702 .N46 2008)

4 Veeck G, Pannell C W, Smith C J and Huang Y, 2007, China’s Geography (Chapter 9 Urban Development in Contemporary China), pp. 233-261. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. (DS706 .C51138 2007).

Shen J, 2006, Understanding dual-track urbanisation in post-reform China: conceptual framework and empirical analysis, Population, Space and Place, 12(6), 497-516.

Mak S W K, Choy L H T, Ho W K O, 2007, Privatization, housing conditions and affordability in the People's Republic of China, Habitat International, 31(2), 177-192 (LS2P3).

Fan C C and Sun M, 2008, Regional inequality in China, 1978–2006, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 49(1), 1–20.(L09P1)

Cannon T and Jenkins A (eds), 1990, The Geography of Contemporary China (Chapter 2, Regions: spatial inequality and regional policy, pp.28-60), London: Routledge.

Zhang L, 2003, Economic development in Shanghai and the role of the state, Urban Studies, 40(8), 1549-1572

Wu F, 2000, Global and local dimensions of place-making: remaking Shanghai as a world city. Urban Studies, 37(8), 1359-1377

Wei Y D, Leung C K and Luo J, 2006, Globalizing Shanghai: foreign investment and urban restructuring. Habitat International, 30(2), 231-244

Sit V F S, 1998, Hong Kong's "transferred" industrialization and industrial geography, Asian Survey 38(9), 880-904.

FHKI (Federation of Hong Kong Industries) (2007), Made in PRD: Challenges & Opportunities for Hong Kong Industry. Hong Kong: FHKI.

Shen J, 2008, Inter-city relations between Hong Kong and Shenzhen: Implications for urban planning and governance, Planning and Development, 23(1), 2-14

Chu D K Y, Shen J and Wong K Y, 2002, Shenzhen-Hong Kong as one: modes and prospectus of regional governance in the PRD, in Wong K Y and Shen J (eds), Resource Management, Urbanization and Governance in Hong Kong and the Zhujiang Delta, pp.231-248. Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press.

Requirement of China project Each student is required to conduct an independent China project. Each student should complete a report, 2500-3500 words long, on a topic related to Geography of China such as population control, rural development, urbanization, housing, industrial development, unbalanced regional development of a place or the whole country. Each student should choose different topics. The project will be presented at tutorial sessions first before the final report is submitted considering suggestions from the class. Detailed arrangement is as follows:

1. Week 1 in lecture time: briefing on project requirement

5 2. From 8pm of Monday of the 3rd week, students should post their chosen topics to the course web site. Other students should not choose the same topic that has been posted by other students. Tutors will reject topics that are very similar and the student then need to propose a new topic. All topics should be decided in the week. 3. Meeting in week 6: introducing and discussing chosen topics by group (3% +2%) 4. Submitting hardcopy of draft report to tutors in week 10 5. Meeting in week 11, 12, 13, 14: presenting project and discussion by group (5%+5%) 6. Submitting report in week 15 (10%)

Each student should search and read 3-6 journal papers/book chapters to identify an issue under investigation by scholars to choose the topic. The student should review these papers to report the main arguments and findings of the existing literature. The student should then search for secondary documents, books, reports or statistical data to do further analysis and discussion of the topic.

The report should include an introduction, literature review, main body of text, conclusion and references with 0-5 tables and 0-5 figures.

Hard copy of draft report should be submitted to the tutor before 5pm, 17 March (10% mark will be deducted from 100% of the course if draft report is not submitted). The draft report should be revised after your presentation. The final report should include a list of changes made over the draft report.

Submitting final report to VeriGuide system Each student needs to submit a softcopy of the final report to the VeriGuide system at: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/veriguide

Students should use CWEM account to login and provide following information to upload the final report:  Course code: GRMD2305  Assignment no: 2 (You are NOT required to submit draft report to VeriGuide)  Due date for assignment: 21 April 2011

After submission, a student should receive a receipt and an academic honesty declaration statement via an e-mail from VeriGuide. Print the receipt and the declaration statement and submit them to tutors together with a hardcopy of final report.

Submitting final report to tutors A hardcopy of the final report, together with VeriGuide receipt and declaration statement, should be handed to the tutor and the softcopy should also be posted to the "Project report" section of the Discussion in the course web-site before 5pm, 21 April 2011.

References for China Project Students should read reference books of the course and journal papers to choose a significant research topic of Geography of China. Useful journals including:

6 China Quarterly (UL Periodical DS701 .C472), http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CQY&bVolume=y

The China Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal on Greater China (UL Periodical DS701 .C488), http://cup.cuhk.edu.hk/ojs/index.php/ChinaReview

Journal of Contemporary China China Information

Data Sources for China Project

China data online, http://easyaccess.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/login?url=http://chinadataonline.org/

China References available in the University Service Center for China Studies in CUHK: http://library.usc.cuhk.edu.hk/

Annual Statistical Data on China available from National Bureau of Statistics: http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/statisticaldata/yearlydata/

Provincial Bureaus of Statistics: http://www.stats.gov.cn/tjlj/ (in Chinese)

Attention is drawn to University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and to the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations. Details may be found at http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/. With each assignment, students will be required to submit a statement that they are aware of these policies, regulations, guidelines and procedures.

Declaration statement for student assignment (Use VeriGuide statement if applicable)

I declare that the assignment here submitted is original except for source material explicitly acknowledged. I also acknowledge that I am aware of University policy and regulations on honesty in academic work, and of the disciplinary guidelines and procedures applicable to breaches of such policy and regulations, as contained in the website http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/

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