China Profiled: Essential Facts on Society, Business, and Politics in China (SYB FactBook Series)

A new series of easy-to-digest profiles on individual countries and regions, featuring everything you'll ever need to know about the places, people and practices of each country. The series will continue with eight further titles to launch in Spring/Autumn 2000, on Scandinavia, Southern Africa, and Central Europe.

Series Header: The SYB FactBook Series This is an exciting new series of books for the general reader from the editor and publishers of one of the world's most respected reference books—The Statesman's Yearbook. The FactBooks present everything you need to know about the places, people, and practices of each country in an easy-to-browse format. Complete with key city maps, useful addresses and web sites, these first four country profiles are ideal for the traveler, business person, student, or anyone with an interest in learning about a given country.

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This reference presents essential facts on society, business, and politics in China. It includes information on key historical events, major cities, business and social customs, trade fairs and festivals, industry, economy, defense, trade, and further reading and websites. Contains a few color maps. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Front Matter....Pages i-1 Territory and Population....Pages 2-7 Time Zone Information....Pages 7-7 Regions....Pages 7-28 Key Historical Events....Pages 28-46 Chronology....Pages 46-52 Cultural Briefing....Pages 53-60 Selected Historical and Political Portraits....Pages 60-63 Major Cities....Pages 63-178 China is bounded in the north by Russia and Mongolia; east by North Korea, the Yellow Sea the East China Sea, with Hong Kong and Macao as enclaves on the southeast coast; south by Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar,India, Bhutan, and Nepal; west India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.