Carolyn Cartier is Associate Professor and Acting Chair of the Department of Geography at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Globalizing South China (Blackwell, 2001), "Origins and Evolution of a Geographical Idea: The Macroregion in China," Modern China (vol. 28, 2002), and co-editor with Laurence J.C. Ma of The Chinese Diaspora: Place, Space, Mobility and Identity (Rowman & Littlefiled, 2003). She is currently working on an examination of the changing role of the state in China's administrative re-districting, and an unrelated project on the relationship between avant-garde arts and the political movement in Hong Kong.

Globalizing South China provides readers with an invaluable evalution of "greater China," the Chinese diaspora, regional identity formation, the gendered conditions of the regional economy, nature-society relations, the world city formation. The book concludes by anticipating the futures of Hong Kong and Shanghai and relations between China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore in the wider Asian region.