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Focusing on the socioeconomic conditions of China's diverse ethnic groups, this updated edition of the China Ethnic Statistic Yearbook provides original research and comprehensive data. It highlights the contrast between the Han majority, over 90% of the population, and the 55 officially recognized ethnic minorities, which collectively exceed 100 million people. The Zhuang stand out as the largest minority with over 15 million individuals, while the Lhoba represent the smallest group, with a population of approximately three thousand.

Focusing on the interplay between environmental and human factors, this book delves into the behaviors of early civilizations, examining geographic influences alongside anthropological insights. It revives ancestral terms, particularly those linked to the concept of home, to illustrate cultural evolution. By analyzing the "Win-Stay Lose-Shift" dynamics that shaped civilizations, it uncovers crucial yet overlooked clues about their rise and fall. The narratives challenge conventional wisdom, offering valuable perspectives for students of anthropology and history.

Utilizing an economic lens, the book explores how developing nations adapt to their environments, challenging traditional views of civilization's rise and fall. It argues that adverse conditions, rather than advantageous ones, spur cultural and economic complexity. Guo posits that societies facing challenges have historically shown greater adaptability, leading to cyclical patterns of growth and development. By integrating history, anthropology, and economics, this work offers a fresh perspective on the evolution of civilizations and their adaptive behaviors.

This edition explores the complexities of managing natural resources that cross national borders, emphasizing the need for cooperation among countries. It addresses environmental challenges, legal frameworks, and economic implications, providing a comprehensive analysis of resource governance. The book includes case studies that illustrate successful collaborative efforts and offers insights into policy-making and sustainable practices. It serves as a crucial resource for policymakers, researchers, and practitioners involved in international resource management.

This book presents original research on the socioeconomic conditions of China’s 56 ethnic groups. While the Han nationality comprises over 90% of the population, the non-Han ethnic groups exceed 100 million individuals. Officially, China recognizes 55 ethnic minorities, which vary significantly in size; the Zhuang, with over 15 million members, are the largest, while the Lhoba, with around three thousand, are the smallest. This ethnic diversity has shaped a unique socioeconomic landscape in China. However, a comprehensive socioeconomic overview of these groups, particularly the smaller minorities, has been lacking. The book seeks to address how these ethnic groups have experienced daily life and economic development during China's rapid transition. It offers a detailed and comparable dataset for each ethnic group, presenting a wide array of social and economic indicators in an accessible format. This resource profiles the general social and economic situations of all 56 ethnic groups, with indicators compiled and estimated from regional and local data sources up to 2012.

This book pursues both narrative and analytic approaches to better understand China’s spatial economic development and its implications for Tibet. Accordingly, this book focuses on Tibet – an autonomous region in the far west of China – as the subject of an in-depth case study, highlighting its unique geopolitical and socioeconomic features and external and boundary conditions. China’s great diversity in terms of physical geography, resource endowment, political economy, and ethnicity and religion has posed challenges to the studies of spatial and interprovincial issues. Indeed, the Chinese nation is far too huge and spatially diverse to be easily interpreted. The only feasible approach to analyzing it is, therefore, to divide it into smaller geographical elements so as to arrive at better insights into the country’s spatial mechanisms and regional characteristics. In this context, the book combines analytic and narrative approaches.

This book presents a new approach to management in an increasingly interactive world. In this context, the use of the word “new” has two meanings. The first relates to a new definition of borders (which are natural, institutional, functional, or mixed); the second concerns the fact that the book applies (and, where necessary, develops) analytical tools, methods and models that are different from those used in other similar books. The objectives of this book are: to clarify whether existing management theories and methods can be effectively applied in an entity (which can be defined as a sovereign country, a region, a community, a culture, or a firm) as the latter increasingly interacts with the rest of the world; to develop qualitative and quantitative methods to help leaders make optimal decisions for their entity and, at the same time, to maximize the positive (or minimize the negative) effects of those decisions on the rest of the world; and to design workable cross-border cooperation plans and conflict-management schemes that allow policy-makers to better cope with the challenges and problems posed by our increasingly interactive world.

This book provides, in an easy-to-use format, an extensive collection of data and information on China’s 31 provinces and its interprovincial economic linkages. Intended as a comprehensive resource book, it profiles the geography, demography, and economy for each province. The materials presented, which are gathered from a variety of sources, including many not easily found in English-language media, will be of great value to students, researchers, business and government agencies, and news media professionals who are interested in either individual provinces or China as a whole.

Focusing on China's 56 ethnic groups, this book offers an extensive collection of data that covers demographics, culture, and economic conditions for each group. It presents a comprehensive socioeconomic analysis, providing insights into the unique business climates and future outlooks for these diverse communities.

Focusing on boundary demarcation, this book explores its significant role in territorial disputes and the conflicts that arise from unclear borders. It provides insights into the challenges posed by these disputes and presents effective techniques for managing and resolving the associated conflicts, making it a valuable resource for understanding and addressing issues of territorial integrity.