The Rise of Eastern China: From Hoe Culture to Factory Culture
Understanding China’s New Geographies
By Robert W. McColl
In the past twenty-five years, China has dramatically moved from a rural, agrarian economy and culture to become more urban and a major world economic and political force. In the process, key economic core areas have moved south and eastward, especially to the coast.
Historically, China was a country of small-scale intensive farmers (a “hoe culture”), divided by the physical limits of climate, hydrology, topography, distances, an...
