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  title info:
    title: State Failure and Distorted Urbanisation in Post-Mao's China, 1993-2012
  name:
    name part: Zheng, Yazhuo.
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      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Deng, Kent.
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      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVII, 182 p. 47 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book examines failure in the urbanisation of Northwest China as a result of government industrial policies that have impacted on the economic development of the region. By looking at the under-researched provinces of Gansu, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia, which make up a quarter of China's territory, Zheng and Deng challenge the common story of China's miracle growth and reveal the dark side of the country's pursuit of modernity. Severe weather conditions, chronic drought, permanent lack of oxygen and unforgiving terrain in the Northwest make farming, manufacture and services difficult simply because people tend not to stay. Yet, China's current political system forces growth to take place even though basic conditions and prerequisites for market-based growth are missing. This volume analyses 'ghost cities' and social tension in the process of 'forced urbanisation' in which huge amount of resources are wasted, the local environment is systematically damaged and ordinary people's basic rights are brutally violated in the name of higher GDP and greater government glory. Yazhuo Zheng is President of the Beijing Enlightenment Institute for Economic and Social Research, China. Zheng is a scholar-turned government official; her experience as a local bureaucrat in addition to being an academic researcher have allowed her a unique insight into China's on-going problems with state incompetence. Kent Deng is Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His research interests include Chinese and Maritime Economic History. He is Series Editor for Palgrave Studies in Economic History.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Theoretical Foundation and Literature Review -- Chapter 3: Typical Cases in Northwest China -- Chapter 4: Understanding of China's State and Market -- Chapter 5: Conundrum with Distorted Urbanisation -- Chapter 6: The Central Government and Its Goals -- Chapter 7: State-led Growth and Domestic Debts -- Chapter 8: Final Conclusions. .
  note: by Yazhuo Zheng, Kent Deng.
  subject:
    topic: Economic history
  subject:
    topic: Political economy
  subject:
    topic: Asia-Economic conditions
  subject:
    topic: Industrial organization
  subject:
    topic: Public finance
  subject:
    topic: Economic History
  subject:
    topic: International Political Economy
  subject:
    topic: Asian Economics
  subject:
    topic: Industrial Organization
  subject:
    topic: Public Economics
  classification: HC
  classification: 330.9
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      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History
  identifier: 9783319921686
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92168-6
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    record creation date: 180720
    record change date: 20191022112435.0
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