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1. Governance and Planning of Mega-City Regions

   An International Comparative Perspective

   Edited by Jiang Xu, Anthony Yeh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Neoliberalism’s market revolution has had a tremendous effect on contemporary mega-city regions. The negative consequences of market-oriented politics for territorial growth have been recognized. While a lot of attention has been given to how planners and policy makers are fighting back political...

   Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
2. Urban Development in Post-Reform China

   State, Market, and Space

   By Fulong Wu, Jiang Xu, Anthony Gar-On Yeh

   Radically reoriented under market reform, Chinese cities present both the landscapes of the First and Third World, and are increasingly playing a critical role in the country’s economic development. Yet, radical marketization co-exists with the ever-presence of state control. Exploring the...

   Published November 15th 2006 by Routledge
3. East-Asian Archaeoastronomy

   Historical Records of Astronomical Observations of China, Japan and Korea

   By Zhenoao Xu, W. Pankenier, Yaotiao Jiang

   Series: Earth Space Institute Book Series

   Historical astronomical records can play an important role in modern research, especially in the case of ancient Chinese observational data: sunspot and aurora records are important for the study of solar variability; solar and lunar eclipse records for the study of the Earth's rotation; records of...

   Published November 16th 2000 by CRC Press