China's Asian dream : empire building along the New Silk Road / / Tom Miller |
Autore | Miller Tom (Journalist) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : maps |
Disciplina | 337.5105 |
Soggetto topico |
Regionalism - Asia
Finance - China Finance - Asia International finance Reportage & collected journalism |
ISBN |
1-350-21912-6
1-78360-923-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. "One belt, one road" : financing the new Silk Road. Belt and road initiative ; Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ; Asia's infrastructure arms race -- 2. Marching west : the economics of power in central Asia. Xinjang ; Central Asia ; Russia -- 3. In the heat of the sun : advancing down the Mekong. Laos ; Cambodia -- 4. California dreamin' : how China "lost" Myanmar. Gateway to the Bay of Bengal -- 5. A string of pearls : fear and loathing in the Indian Ocean. Indian Ocean ; Pakistan ; India ; Sri Lanka -- 6. Fiery waters : mapping the South China Sea. Vietnam. |
Altri titoli varianti | Empire building along the New Silk Road |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910162799703321 |
Miller Tom (Journalist) | ||
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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China's urban billion : the story behind the biggest migration in human history / / Tom Miller |
Autore | Miller Tom (Journalist) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2012 |
Descrizione fisica | viii, 192 p. : map |
Disciplina | 307.14160951 |
Collana | Asian Arguments |
Soggetto topico |
Rural-urban migration - China
Urbanization - China Human geography |
ISBN |
1-350-21913-4
1-78032-144-9 1-283-75463-0 1-78032-143-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Asian Arguments; About the Author; Title page; Copyright; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Map of China; Introduction: The Biggest Migration in Human History; 1 By the Sweat of Their Brows: The People Who Built Urban China; Box 1.1 Beijing's slum clearances; Box 1.2 School's out; 2 Passport to Purgatory: Fixing the Hukou System; Box 2.1 Down and out in Beijing; The Chongqing model: paying for the mayor's new clothes; Box 2.2 City livin'; Box 2.3 River town scrubs up; 3 Farm versus Factory: The Battle over Land; Box 3.1 Flogging the fields; Yours to sell: the great land-credit experiment.
Box 3.2 The beginning of the end for traditional farming?4 The Construction Orgy: Paving the Fields; Box 4.1 Tier what?; Box 4.2 Scrabbling to fill the city coffers: the role of local government investment companies; Chengdu and Wuhan: hinterland dynamos; Box 4.3 Riding the stimulus express; Box 4.4 Home, sweet home; 5 Ghost Towns in the Desert: How China Builds Its Cities; Grey, ugly and congested: why are so many Chinese cities so horrible?; Box 5.1 Kingdom of subways; Box 5.2 Beijing: Urban squires, city paupers; Box 5.3 Hangzhou: preservation with Chinese characteristics. Box 5.4 Tianjin: scrubbing upBox 5.5 Zhengzhou: the beauty in the beast; 6 A Billion Wallets: What China's New Urbanites Will and Won't Buy; Box 6.1 Want not, waste not; Box 6.2 Village life; Conclusion: Civilizing the Cities; Bibliography; Sources in English; Sources in Chinese; Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786488503321 |
Miller Tom (Journalist) | ||
London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2012 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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