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In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28% and its land area for 71% of China's total, the region's share of the national GDP is under 20%. Since 1999, Beijing has implemented the West China Development Program to boost the region's growth. To study the major domestic issues and the global implications of this program, the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives organized and hosted a multidisciplinary international conference on March 6-8, 2003. This volu

China, Northwest -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. --- China, Northwest -- Economic policy -- Congresses. --- China, Southwest -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. --- China, Southwest -- Economic policy -- Congresses. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- China, Northwest --- China, Southwest --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- Southwest China --- Northwest China

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Chinese history has always been written from a centrist viewpoint, largely ignoring the local histories that were preserved for generations in the form of oral tradition through myths, legends, and religious ritual. Chieftains into Ancestors describes the intersection of imperial administration and chieftain-dominated local culture. Observing local rituals against the backdrop of extant written records, it focuses on examples from the southwestern Hunan, Guangxi, Yunnan, and southwestern Guangdong provinces. The authors contemplate the crucial question of how one can begin to write the history of a conquered people whose past has been largely wiped out. Combining anthropological fieldwork with historical textual analysis, they dig deep for the indigenous voice as they build a new history of China's southwestern region � one that recognizes the ethnic, religious, and gendered transformations that took place in China's nation-building process.

Ethnology --- Minorities --- Ancestor worship --- Government relations. --- Ethnic identity. --- China, Southwest --- History.

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This thesis confirms many changes, including sharp temperature rise, interannual variability of precipitation, extreme climate events and significant decreases of sunshine duration and wind speed in southwestern China, and systemically explores the action mechanism between large-scale atmospheric circulation systems, the complicated topography, human activities and regional climate changes. This study also analyzes the response of glaciers to climate change so that on the one hand it clearly reflects the relationship between glacier morphologic changes and climate change; on the other, it reveals the mechanism of action of climate warming as a balance between energy and matter. The achievements of this study reflect a significant contribution to the body of research on the response of climate in cold regions, glaciers and human activities to a global change against the background of the typical monsoon climate, and have provided scientific basis for predictions, countermeasures against disasters from extreme weather, utilization of water and the establishment of counterplans to slow and adapt to climate change. Zongxing Li works at the Cold and Arid Region Environmental and Engineering Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China.

Environment. --- Climate Change. --- Climatology. --- Meteorology. --- Environmental sciences. --- Climatic changes. --- Sciences de l'environnement --- Climat --- Changements --- Climate -- China. --- Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects -- China, Southwest. --- Glaciers -- China, Southwest. --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Meteorology & Climatology --- China, Southwest. --- Changes, Climatic --- Climate change --- Climate changes --- Climate variations --- Climatic change --- Climatic changes --- Climatic fluctuations --- Climatic variations --- Global climate changes --- Global climatic changes --- Environmental aspects --- Southwest China --- Climate change. --- Climatology --- Climate change mitigation --- Teleconnections (Climatology) --- Changes in climate --- Climate change science --- Aerology --- Atmospheric science --- Climate --- Climate science --- Climate sciences --- Science of climate --- Global environmental change

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Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality.

Corporations --- Business corporations --- C corporations --- Corporations, Business --- Corporations, Public --- Limited companies --- Publicly held corporations --- Publicly traded corporations --- Public limited companies --- Stock corporations --- Subchapter C corporations --- Business enterprises --- Corporate power --- Disincorporation --- Stocks --- Trusts, Industrial --- History. --- China. --- Southeast Asia. --- Yunnan. --- borderlands. --- corporations. --- ethnicity. --- inequality. --- new accounting history. --- state-building. --- state-owned enterprises. --- China, Southwest --- Southwest China --- Economic conditions --- Commerce --- Ethnic relations

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Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as "the revenge of wild elephants."

NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. --- HISTORY / Asia / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Globalization --- Environmental protection --- Environmentalism --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Environmental quality management --- Protection of environment --- Environmental sciences --- Applied ecology --- Environmental engineering --- Environmental policy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- China, Southwest --- Southwest China --- Environmental conditions. --- Greenwashing --- agriculture. --- agroforestry. --- animals. --- anthropology. --- asian history. --- business development. --- chinese scientists. --- conservation. --- engaging. --- environmental trends. --- environmental. --- expatriate conservationists. --- global environmentalism. --- global. --- globalized social formations. --- historical. --- history. --- human animal relationships. --- indigenous rights. --- nature. --- social science. --- sustainable businesses. --- unanticipated effects.