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The article focuses on the effects China's government policies on geography and political ecology of pandemic disease outbreaks such as HIV/AIDS, SARS, and H1N1 on the past two decades. It relates the concerns that emerged with the policies which highlight the unexpected side-effects in location, incidence, and pandemics as well as its impact on the progression of disease outbreaks. The suggestion that state policies prompted the severity of pandemic diseases in the country is also stated.

The article offers information on the monumental urban design in China. It outlines the major landmarks and land use projects in several cities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou. Details related to the effect of Chinese State's regulation in everyday urban life are presented. The monumental works in preparation for the Beijing Olympics are presented, followed by discussion on how the event are continuously shaping the Chinese urban cities. It is mentioned that the current clearing of city neighborhoods, as well as mass displacement of residents to give way for megaproject-related constructions, have prompted opposition and resistance at the local levels.

The article presents the analysis of the restructuring of Beijing's social space as preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games. American geographers presented observations on the preparation carried for the Olympic Games which is focused on some of the more prominent geographical impacts stemming from construction, relocation, and related measures contracted by the authorities to accommodate the event. Part of the literature are segments on environmental concerns especially in air pollution, infrastructure such as water supply, automobile traffic, and mass transit, relocation and displacement of residents specifically the migrants and other disfavored section of the society.

This paper examines the social geography of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in China, focusing on the spread of HIV/AIDS, and the extent to which migration and urbanisation might be contributing to both the spread and the increasing prevalence of these diseases. The paper begins with a discussion of the early years of the epidemic (beginning in the mid-1980s), when the consensus view was that STDs and HIV were geographically marginal phenomena, occurring either on China's periphery, or in isolated parts of its rural interior. This characterisation seemed to be less appropriate in the latter part of the 1990s, when it became clear that temporary and circular migration had the potential to spread the diseases from one part of the country to another. The second part of the paper examines the connection between migration and the prevalence of STDs and HIV, reporting on some of the empirical evidence to support such a hypothesis, and speculating on the theoretical underpinnings of the migration/STD relationship. The third part of the paper considers what might lie in store for China in terms of its HIV epidemic. One distinct possibility is the spread of HIV to China's booming cities, and to explore this possibility in theoretical terms, a number of interrelated aspects of urbanisation that might be associated with higher rates of HIV-related risky behaviours are considered. It is suggested that these overlapping sets of forces could be related to the emergence of new behaviours and lifestyles that may be putting a growing number of Chinese people at risk in the new millennium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Examines the content of newspaper reporting in contemporary urban China. Inventory of new items related to economic reforms; Impact of commercialization on the circulation of communications messages; Aim of newspapers to gain a larger share of the market.