China’s Regional Development and Tibet

• Main Author: Guo, Rongxing (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Regional planning.; Urban planning.; Development economics.; Economic growth.; Economics.; Development Economics.; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning.; Economic Growth.

This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China’s spatial economic development and its implications for Tibet. Accordingly, this book focuses on Tibet – an autonomous region in the far west of China – as the subject of an in-depth case study, highlighting its uniq...

Table of Contents:

• A Brief History of Tibet
• Chinese-style Development in Tibet: Narrative
• Tibetan Unrest and the Dalai Lama: Narrative
• Determinants of Spatial (Dis)integration: Analytics
• Going Back to Tibet: Analytic Narrative
• Ethnic Autonomy and Tibet: Policy Options
• Epilogue: Center versus Peripheries
• References.