ABSTRACT China’s industrialization after the 1840s has been mainly regarded as a reaction to external shocks from Western countries. However, Rostow’s stages of growth theory states that industrialization should be achieved by adequate groundwork of agrarian economy. In this context, this study aims to quantitatively analyze China’s industrialization from 1874 to 1927 by comparing the external influences of foreign factors (including trade and finance) and the internal agrarian economy. Statistical results empirically supports China’s industrialization should be treated as a self-strengthening movement in response to the negative impact of foreign factors and weak basis of agrarian economy. The empirical findings could further supplement the current knowledge on the development of China’s industrialization and the case of such industrialization must be analyzed in the context of colonized economy from a macro-scale in time and space. Furthermore, current findings could also show the limitation of Rostow’s stages of growth theory as applied to a colonized society.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1534324
L. T. Cheung, A. Lo
Interaction between human and environment has been a popular research topic for geographers. The rapid development in many Asian countries triggers further concern to Asian Geographers on the impacts of human activities to the environment. Many previous studies have conclusively indicated that human could bring both positively and negatively impacts to our surrounding environment that influences the quality of our life. In this regard, enhancing our understanding about the human activities and their impacts on environment are vital to formulate appropriate strategies to tackle the environmental problems caused by the development. In this special issue, scholars are invited to examine the above topics. The scope of research ranged from local to global scale and it is hoped that insights on the relationship between environment and development can offer the readers a holistic understanding on the human–environment relationship. This special issue is originated from the invitation of Prof. Xu Jiang – the Editor-in-Chief of Asian Geographer. Five papers are included in this special issue. Briefly, the first paper is about a comprehensive review on the role of climate change on wars in history. Lee (2018) offers a holistic review on the large-N quantitative studiesmeasuring the effect of climate change onwars in recent history. Two papers are about tourism in both rural areas in China and global geopark of Hong Kong. Chan and Zhang (2018) investigate the destination image of the Hong Kong UNESCOGlobal Geopark and Lee andAbrahams (2018) examine how tourism representations mirror state discourses and ideologies in amanner that reflects the highly state-managed nature of the nature’s tourism economy. Xu et al. (2018) andMorley (2018) articles focus on the industrialization of China and urban development in Baguio of Philippines.
人与环境的相互作用一直是地理学家研究的热点问题。许多亚洲国家的快速发展引发了亚洲地理学家对人类活动对环境影响的进一步关注。许多先前的研究已经明确地表明，人类可以给我们周围的环境带来积极和消极的影响，从而影响我们的生活质量。因此，提高我们对人类活动及其对环境的影响的认识，对于制定适当的策略来解决发展所带来的环境问题至关重要。在这期特刊中，学者们被邀请来研究上述主题。研究范围从地方到全球，希望通过对环境与发展关系的深入了解，使读者对人与环境的关系有一个全面的认识。本期特刊是应《亚洲地理》杂志总编辑徐江教授的邀请而创办的。这期特刊收录了五篇论文。简而言之，第一篇论文是关于历史上气候变化对战争的作用的全面回顾。Lee(2018)对近年来测量气候变化对战争影响的大n定量研究进行了全面回顾。两篇论文分别是关于中国农村地区和香港世界地质公园的旅游。Chan和Zhang(2018)研究了香港联合国教科文组织世界地质公园的目的地形象，Lee和abrahams(2018)研究了旅游表征如何以反映自然旅游经济高度国家管理性质的方式反映国家话语和意识形态。Xu et al.(2018)和morley(2018)的文章关注中国的工业化和菲律宾碧瑶的城市发展。
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1505646
Anna Ka-yin Lee, R. Abrahams
ABSTRACT Tourism is often used in conjunction with the creation and consumption of knowledge to mold the ways in which people perceive, imagine and understand “other” places. This article examines how the imagery and framing of tourism promotion both utilizes and reciprocates constructions of China’s ethnic minority, rural places and peoples. Through an analysis of the promotional imagery of a rural and ethnic tourism resort, the discussion highlights how tourism representations mirror state discourses and ideologies in a manner that reflects the highly state-managed nature of the nation’s tourism economy. Utilizing a Foucauldian framework that conceptualizes the dissemination of power through the creation of knowledge and normalizing discourses, tourism is presented as a conduit through which the Chinese state is able to position and delimit spatial and ethnic groups. Thus, not only are tourism promotional materials understood as a key means through which to entice tourists, they become a nexus through which to understand China’s ethnic power imbalances. The examined promotional materials highlight the ways in which promotional imagery disseminates idealized narratives and imagery that locate minority groups spatially, and tie them socially and culturally.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1527235
Chung-Shing Chan, Yunan Zhang
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the destination image of Hong Kong UNESCO Global Geopark by comparing the projected image held by the park authority and the perceived image by Mainland Chinese park visitors. Through a qualitative categorization of the elements in official park promotional materials, this study identifies categories of image projection, which concentrate on key characteristics of geological features, interpretations and education, as well as accessibility and proximity to urban areas. The survey-based approach reveals that the Mainland Chinese visitors consider geological and marine scenery, ecological and natural environments to be the most important factor representing the perceived image of the Geopark. In this paper, components of the perceived image are discovered, showing that geological features and education, as well as ecological and natural beauty are the consistent aspects of projected-perceived image. The most apparent image gap lies in the discrepancy between the authority-projected high accessibility and visitor-perceived low park-city proximity.
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Pub Date : 2018-07-03DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1504807
H. Lee
ABSTRACT Since 2005, there have been an increasing number of large-N quantitative studies measuring the effect of climate change on wars in recent history. Those large-N studies are crucial in illuminating the close connection between the physical environment and human societies in a macro (i.e. long-temporal and large-spatial) historic perspective. Grounded on a large number of cases, those studies help evidence and generalize the societal impact of climate change. Nevertheless, this large-N approach is relatively new in academia, and there is not any standard practice as regards how the quantitative analysis of the pre-industrial climate-war nexus should be conducted. Some methodological issues remain open. In this study, those large-N studies of the climate-war nexus in the pre-industrial period are systematically reviewed. Some conceptual and methodological issues pertinent to the understanding and examination of the climate-war nexus are discussed. Suggestions and priorities for future research on the topic are also provided at the end of this paper. This study may provide deeper reflections and produce constructive insights about the relationship between climate change and wars, advancing progress in climate-war research.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-06DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1463854
Mahmood Shoorcheh
ABSTRACT The present paper aims to explore how the principle of “spatiality” provides internal consistency and intrinsic unity to the science of geography. The main idea is that geography as a science has an intrinsic unity based on the principle of “spatiality,” which embraces many manifestations in some of the main dimensions of this science, and almost all various perceptions from this science and from various aspects of it refer to the principle of “spatiality.” Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature of geographic knowledge and attempts to read this science based on the principle of linguistic unity and conceptual cohesion in some of its most important aspects (Geo, language, perspective, concepts. ideas, concerns, teaching and learning, application and purposes). This is to improve the integrity of understanding and introducing Geography among other sciences.
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Pub Date : 2018-06-05DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1483831
W. Holden
ABSTRACT The Philippines is one of the most vulnerable countries in the world to climate change. While climate change is a threat arising from outside of the Philippines, environmental degradation and unsustainable development practices occurring within the Philippines increase its vulnerability to climate change. This article examines the hazards posed to the Philippines by climate change, discusses factors in the Philippines contributing to climate change vulnerability, discusses the need for a population centric development paradigm, and concludes with a discussion of the historic, and continuing, domination of Philippines society by an elite that has taken control of the state and uses it as a vehicle for furthering its own interests.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1426023
Mingyong Li, Jianping Duan, Du-juan Zhang, Lilyl . Wang, Jun Wang, Xu-Chun Li, Jie Zhou
ABSTRACT Climate change, especially the rapid warming since the industrial revolution, has drawn much attention over the past decades. However, the short instrumental climate records on the Tibetan Plateau (TP) impede our understanding of the current status of climate. Although tree-ring-based temperature reconstructions have been developed on the TP, increasing the spatial distribution of sampling sites can improve our understanding of the recent warming. Here we present a new tree-ring maximum latewood density chronology of Balfour spruce (Picea likiangensis var. balfouriana) growing near the upper treeline on the eastern TP, and use it to reconstruct late summer (August–September) mean temperature since AD 1837. The reconstruction explains 61.7% of the actual variance of instrumental August–September mean temperature over the calibration period 1957–2014, and represents regional-scale temperature variations over the eastern and southeastern TP. The August–September mean temperature reconstruction reveals three relatively cold phases (the 1850s–1870s, the 1900s–1910s and the 1960s) and two warm periods (the 1930s–1940s and 1972–2014) over the past two centuries. Comparisons of our reconstruction with other independent tree-ring-based temperature records and glacier fluctuation documents near our research area show good consistencies in those cold and warm phases. Our reconstruction exhibits a pronounced and persistent temperature rise since the 1960s, providing a new line of evidence for the recent warming on the TP. Moreover, our results indicate that the August–September mean temperature variability over the eastern TP has a potential linkage with the EI Nino/Southern Oscillation and the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2018.1476256
K. Farrell, Hans Westlund
ABSTRACT Having gone from 11.8% of its population inhabiting urban areas in 1950 to 49.2% by 2010, China represents the most dramatic urban transformation the world has seen. With the contemporary urban narrative presenting new challenges, particularly in terms of its unprecedented pace and scale, this paper conducts an inquiry into the nature and causes of China’s rapid urban ascent. Making use of a new analytical framework, this paper maps out the changing stages of China’s urban transition and examines the components of urban growth underpinning it. It arrives at several notable findings. Rural to urban migration has been the dominant component of urban growth, followed by urban natural population increase and reclassification. Although China’s urban growth rates were high, it is the reduction in rural growth rates that underpinned China’s particularly rapid urbanization rates. China is currently in the latter part of the accelerated stage of its urban transition, and is expected to enter the terminal stage by 2030. In light of China’s ongoing urban transition, this paper concludes with reflections on China’s New-Type Urbanization Plan 2014–2020.
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Pub Date : 2018-01-02DOI: 10.1080/10225706.2017.1422767
Thanapan Laiprakobsup
ABSTRACT This article examines the relation between leadership, government, trust, and how community-based enterprises (CBEs) access markets. It argues that leadership styles, the relation with the government, and level of trust among members and networks lead to different patterns of market access of local community enterprises. Conducting field research and in-depth interviews with CBEs in northeastern, central, and southern Thailand, it was found that some CBEs establish their enterprises and networks and directly access markets without relying on the government. Meanwhile, other CBEs are more likely to rely on the government to establish their enterprises, to connect with other local enterprises, and to access markets. Leadership, trust within enterprises, and proximity to government agencies can explain the different paths of CBE market access. Instead of implementing a universal program for all CBEs, the government needs to be concerned with the specific characteristics of CBEs in order to respond directly to their needs.
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