This resource book explores and integrates a number of physical, human and environmental themes to provide a wide-ranging and balanced geography of China. "Exploring China" includes coverage of both rural and urban life, population policy, weather and climate, energy and power, industrial development, environmental issues and trade. It looks at Hong Kong, the Pearl River delta and life in North China in some detail and concludes with a discussion of China's future.

 

 

This book is part of a book series called Exploring .

There are 32 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 1997 by Hodder Arnold .

This book has the following chapters: Land of contrasts; the Pearl River delta; living in North China; weather and climate hazards; feeding one billion people; one child per family?; farmers for 40 centuries; traditional Chinese cities; changing Chinese cities; the Yangtze, China's main street; taming the dragon; made in China; China on the move; the damaged land; the Dragon awakes.