Laurence J C Ma
Biographic Data
| ID | 741931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence J C Ma |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence J C |
| FAMILY NAME | Ma |
| SIGNATURE | MA L J C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Akron |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 564 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China
The Chinese city in transition
Tourism geography in China, 1978-2008
Tourism geography did not exist in China before 1978. Since its birth shortly after the 1978 reforms, it has been growing rapidly. After a brief period of growth with strong interests in theoretical issues, the field over the last two decades has been dominated by applied work. This is attributable to the rise of tourism as an important source of national and local income which demands better planning of tourism resources, and to the neoliberaliz…
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China, You-Tien Hsing, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xiv + 258 pp. US$80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 956804 8. China's stunnin
Changing urban form, with Chinese characteristics
Social Space and Governance in Urban China
Transforming China's globalizing cities
The State of the Field of Urban China
The field of urban China has experienced rapid growth since the mid-1970s. In this special issue, the status of the field is reviewed through the disciplinary lenses of history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and urban planning. These disciplines have contributed to the bulk of the literature on urban China, covering a wide range of subjects. It is suggested that more interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdiscipli…
Privatization of rural industry and de facto urbanization from below in southern Jiangsu, China
Urban administrative restructuring, changing scale relations and local economic development in China
Economic reforms, urban spatial restructuring, and planning in China
Urban Transformation in China, 1949 – 2000
Through a review of the literature, the author identifies the achievements as well as the deficiencies in the study of China's urbanization and urbanism in the second half of the 20th century. A number of issues that merit scholarly research are suggested and the need for theorization is emphasized. During the last half century, Chinese cities underwent dramatic transformations as a consequence of two major systemic changes. During the first thre…
The Handbook of International Migration
Remaking the Chinese City
Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China
As in other countries, suburbanization in China occurred after the cities had experienced a period of sustained industrial and population growth. This study examines suburbanization in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Dalian. As a result of economic restructuring, the urban core registered net population loss from 1982 to 1990 because of decentralization while the inner suburbs gained population. Among the forces driving suburbanization were mark…
Native Place, Migration and the Emergence of Peasant Enclaves in Beijing
Since the early 1980s, reduced migration control by the state and increasing economic liberalization in China have led to the movement of millions of peasants to the cities, creating various types of new “urban spaces” and “non-state spaces.” This influx has fundamentally changed the social, spatial and economic landscapes of the Chinese city, making the urban scene much more varied, lively and dynamic, but less safe and orderly than that of the …
Determinants of State Investment in China, 1953–1990
Generalizations of regional development in socialist countries based on detailed case studies of important elements of production in different countries are needed. This study focuses on one important force that affects China's regional development: state investment in basic construction. With the exception of the Third Front period (1965‐71), the more developed eastern region always enjoyed a greater proportion of state investment than the centr…
Beijing
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
The Kong Becoming China multi-volume series is published for an international readership. It aims to provide both expert analysis and the documentary basis for an informed understanding of Hong Kong's transition as a free society and capitalist economy toward socialist Chinese sovereignty under the country, Two systems formula. This series explores the crucial dimensions of Hong Kong's current developments in this transitional process, as well as…
Urbanisation from Below
Urbanisation in China during the Maoist period was largely a consequence of centralised planning and Soviet-type industrialisation dominated by the growth of cities. The towns lost their commercial function and stagnated. Since the reforms of 1978, the growth of towns has emerged as a new force of Chinese urbanisation. This case study of the growth of towns in Jiangsu province shows that enterprises in the towns have attracted a large number of d…
The Changing Geography of China
China's Coastal Cities
The coastal region of China has undergone remarkable physical and social transformation upon the implementation of the open policy of the government in 1978. This book ( Chinas Coastal Cities ) is the culmination of a lengthy collaborative research project among scholars in China Hong Kong Canada and other countries and attempts to assess the impact of coastal zone development policies in Chinas modernization. The chapters present a historical ba…
Urbanizing China
Development of Towns in China
This article examines the growth functions and population changes of Chinas towns in recent years using Guangdong Province as a case study. We examine the relationship between towns and the nations rural economic growth with emphasis on the roles of towns in rural population migration. To gain a better understanding of how the town economy functions we compare the employment structure in two distinct types of towns: county capitals and market tow…
Chinese Imperial City Planning
Discusses what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and the visual characteristics of imperial planning in China
Economic Restructuring and Suburbanization in China
As in other countries, suburbanization in China occurred after the cities had experienced a period of sustained industrial and population growth. This study examines suburbanization in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang, and Dalian. As a result of economic restructuring, the urban core registered net population loss from 1982 to 1990 because of decentralization while the inner suburbs gained population. Among the forces driving suburbanization were mark…
Urban administrative restructuring, changing scale relations and local economic development in China
Urbanisation from Below
Urbanisation in China during the Maoist period was largely a consequence of centralised planning and Soviet-type industrialisation dominated by the growth of cities. The towns lost their commercial function and stagnated. Since the reforms of 1978, the growth of towns has emerged as a new force of Chinese urbanisation. This case study of the growth of towns in Jiangsu province shows that enterprises in the towns have attracted a large number of d…
Reluctant Exiles? Migration from Hong Kong and the New Overseas Chinese
The Kong Becoming China multi-volume series is published for an international readership. It aims to provide both expert analysis and the documentary basis for an informed understanding of Hong Kong's transition as a free society and capitalist economy toward socialist Chinese sovereignty under the country, Two systems formula. This series explores the crucial dimensions of Hong Kong's current developments in this transitional process, as well as…
Local state and administrative urbanization in post-reform China
Urbanization in China
Privatization of rural industry and de facto urbanization from below in southern Jiangsu, China
Development of Towns in China
This article examines the growth functions and population changes of Chinas towns in recent years using Guangdong Province as a case study. We examine the relationship between towns and the nations rural economic growth with emphasis on the roles of towns in rural population migration. To gain a better understanding of how the town economy functions we compare the employment structure in two distinct types of towns: county capitals and market tow…
Chinese Imperial City Planning
Discusses what is known from textual and archaeological evidence about every Chinese imperial capital, from the earliest times to the end of the 20th century. It explains the fundamental architectural principles and the visual characteristics of imperial planning in China
Physical Geography of China
Chinese Cities
This is an introduction to a special issue of Urban Geography devoted to urbanization in China particularly the role of urbanization in the development process that has occurred in the post-Mao period since 1976. The papers included here were presented at a conference on Asian urbanization held at the University of Akron Ohio April 19-20 1985. The authors of this introduction identify a number of important issues related to urbanization in China …
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China
The Great Urban Transformation. Politics of Land and Property in China, You-Tien Hsing, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2010). xiv + 258 pp. US$80.00 (hbk). ISBN 978 0 19 956804 8. China's stunnin
Beijing
Determinants of State Investment in China, 1953–1990
Generalizations of regional development in socialist countries based on detailed case studies of important elements of production in different countries are needed. This study focuses on one important force that affects China's regional development: state investment in basic construction. With the exception of the Third Front period (1965‐71), the more developed eastern region always enjoyed a greater proportion of state investment than the centr…
The State of the Field of Urban China
The field of urban China has experienced rapid growth since the mid-1970s. In this special issue, the status of the field is reviewed through the disciplinary lenses of history, geography, anthropology, sociology, political science, and urban planning. These disciplines have contributed to the bulk of the literature on urban China, covering a wide range of subjects. It is suggested that more interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, and transdiscipli…
Urban Development in Modern China
This is a collection of studies that illustrate the geographical political and economic aspects of the Chinese city beginning with urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and emphasizing contemporary urban patterns. Topics covered include recent growth and change in Chinas urban system policies favoring the growth of smaller urban places between 1949 and 1979 trends in urban planning and development and causes of urban s…
Transforming China's globalizing cities
China's Coastal Cities
The coastal region of China has undergone remarkable physical and social transformation upon the implementation of the open policy of the government in 1978. This book ( Chinas Coastal Cities ) is the culmination of a lengthy collaborative research project among scholars in China Hong Kong Canada and other countries and attempts to assess the impact of coastal zone development policies in Chinas modernization. The chapters present a historical ba…
Tourism geography in China, 1978-2008
Tourism geography did not exist in China before 1978. Since its birth shortly after the 1978 reforms, it has been growing rapidly. After a brief period of growth with strong interests in theoretical issues, the field over the last two decades has been dominated by applied work. This is attributable to the rise of tourism as an important source of national and local income which demands better planning of tourism resources, and to the neoliberaliz…
Preliminary Results of the 1982 Census in China
The State Statistical Bureau of China announced in October 1982 the preliminary results of the 1982 census. It was revealed that the population of China including Taiwan was 1026503884 persons. The 1982 census differed from the 1953 and 1964 Chinese censuses in 2 ways: coverage of demographic variables was much broader and modern census taking techniques including computers were used. During the past 3 years the State Statistical Bureau released …
China's Traditional Rural Architecture
Interbasin Water Transfer in China
The Environment
China's Island Frontier
The Changing Geography of China
Agricultural Change and the Peasant Economy of South China
The Chinese Approach to City Planning
Research Article| September 01 1979 The Chinese Approach to City Planning: Policy, Administration, and Action Laurence J. C. Ma Laurence J. C. Ma Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Far Eastern Survey (1950) 19 (9): 838–855. https://doi.org/10.2307/2643807 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permis…
Recent Developments in Chinese Geographical Research
Oil from the Wells of China
Chinese Walled Cities
Urban Development in Modern China
Urban Development in Modern China
Modern Industrial Cities . Bruce M. Stave, editor; Optimization in Locational and Transport Analysis . Alan G. Wilson, Jose D. Coelho, Sally M. Macgill, and Huw C. W. L. Williams; Land Use in America …
Interbasin Water Transfer in China
The Environment
Preliminary Results of the 1982 Census in China
The State Statistical Bureau of China announced in October 1982 the preliminary results of the 1982 census. It was revealed that the population of China including Taiwan was 1026503884 persons. The 1982 census differed from the 1953 and 1964 Chinese censuses in 2 ways: coverage of demographic variables was much broader and modern census taking techniques including computers were used. During the past 3 years the State Statistical Bureau released …
Urban Development in Modern China
This is a collection of studies that illustrate the geographical political and economic aspects of the Chinese city beginning with urbanization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and emphasizing contemporary urban patterns. Topics covered include recent growth and change in Chinas urban system policies favoring the growth of smaller urban places between 1949 and 1979 trends in urban planning and development and causes of urban s…
China's Island Frontier
China
China
Chinese Cities
This is an introduction to a special issue of Urban Geography devoted to urbanization in China particularly the role of urbanization in the development process that has occurred in the post-Mao period since 1976. The papers included here were presented at a conference on Asian urbanization held at the University of Akron Ohio April 19-20 1985. The authors of this introduction identify a number of important issues related to urbanization in China …
Urbanization in China
Physical Geography of China
China's Traditional Rural Architecture
Urbanization and Urban Policies in Pacific Asia
Urbanization in Asia
Urbanization in Asia
Urbanization in Asia
This book is a product of the International Conference on Asian Urbanization held in Akron Ohio in April 1985. It contains 20 papers including an initial description of trends and prospects and a review of the literature. Country-specific reviews are then presented for India Pakistan China and Taiwan. The remaining papers are grouped under the general headings of regional and metropolitan effects of urbanization case studies in urban development …
Urbanization in Asia
China's Vernacular Architecture
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