Book review - High speed Rail and China’s New Economic Geography: impact assessment from the regional science perspective: edited by Zhenhua Chen, Kinsley E. Haynes with Yulong Zhou and Zhaoxin Dai, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2019, 328 pp., Web: £81.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78536-603-1(cased), ISBN: 978-1-78536-604-8

The rapid growth of high-speed rail (HSR) in China has impressed the world. Following the admiration, critics also raised a series of questions arranging from financial consequence to environmental, spatial and social issues. HSR and China’s New Economic Geography: Impact assessment from the regional science perspective, edited by Zhenhua Chen, Kinsley E. Haynes with Yulong Zhou and Zhaoxin Dai, provides a comprehensive overview as well as in-depth explanation of the regional effects of HSR development on China’s economic geography.