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Geographies of rising and declining powers: China and Europe

Geographies of rising and declining powers: China and Europe. Mick Dunford. 1 Geographies of rising and declining powers. A brief historical outline of the rise of the west as a centre of economic and political power, Asian decline and China’s century of humiliation.

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Geographies of rising and declining powers: China and Europe

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  1. Geographies of rising and declining powers: China and Europe Mick Dunford

  2. 1 Geographies of rising and declining powers • A brief historical outline of the rise of the west as a centre of economic and political power, Asian decline and China’s century of humiliation

  3. 2 Comparative European development, Cold war rivalries, the fall of European Communism, construction of the EU • Varieties of capitalism and geographies of comparative economic performance of European countries • The financial and debt crisis: has the era of western economic and political leadership come to an end?

  4. China’s poverty counties and 14 concentrated poverty zones in 2012

  5. 14 contiguous areas of concentrated poverty in China

  6. Ecological function zones

  7. 3 Development of China from the establishment of the PRC to the present: Communism, market socialism with Chinese characteristics • Globalisation, China’s export oriented model of development, is China still socialist? • Urbanisation, rural development and urban rural relations: Shenzhen model, Chongqing model, the development of high plateau and other poor areas in China, rural poverty, liudong (floating) population, resource constraints and environmental protection

  8. 4 China going global and geographies of international interdependence • China zouquchu (goes global), its growing external influence: development co-operation models, south-south and north-south relations

  9. Assessment • A coursework essay associated with a group presentation (40 per cent) and • An essay written at the end of the course (60 per cent)

  10. Teaching • One hour lecture introducing subsequent week’s subject • Two hour seminar in which students give presentations

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