Introduction, a basic guide to developments from 1949 to 1989 / Terry Cannon and Alan Jenkins -- Regions, spatial inequality and regional policy / Terry Cannon -- History, historical perspectives on the current geography of China / Richard Louis Edmonds -- Environment, understanding and transforming the physical environment / Edward Derbyshire -- People, demographic patterns and policies / John Jowett -- Rural China,old problems and new solutions / Frank Lemming and Simon Powell -- Industry, energy and transport, problems and policies / Maurice Howard --Urbanisation, processes, policies and patterns / Wing-Shing Tang and Alan Jenkins -- Foreign investment and trade, impact on the spatial structure of the economy / David R Phillips and Anthony Gar-On Yeh -- The environmental impact of economic development, problems and policies /Bernhard Glaeser -- Defining and defending the Chinese state, geopolitical perspectives / Alan Jenkins