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121-023 China in Transition | |
Note | Formerly available as 121-238/338. Students who have completed 121-238/338 are not eligible to enrol in this subject. |
Credit Points | 12.5 |
HECS Band | 1 |
Coordinator | Dr Mark Wang |
Prerequisites | 25 points of first year geography, economics or Asian studies or approval of the subject coordinator. |
Semester | 1 (view timetable) |
Contact | Two 1.5-hour lecture/seminars per week |
Subject Description | This subject is about the geography of 'Red Capitalist' China. It introduces students to issues of physical landscape, resources, present livelihood, and people and places in the land of one billion. The focus of the subject is the ongoing socio-economic transformation in post-Deng Xiaoping China including issues such as feeding a billion people; population growth and the one-child-only policy; political changes in the post-Deng era; and is China a third world country or a major economic power? Students should become familiar with questions of rapid economic growth and the environmental consequences; open door policy and foreign investment; migration and urbanisation; coast-inland conflicts and income polarisation; economic restructuring, sustainable development and environmental degradation; and China in the next century. |
Assessment | A 1.5-hour examination and an essay of 2500 words. |
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