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1. Choosing China's Leaders

   Edited by Chien-Wen Kou, Xiaowei Zang

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, technocracy, and crucially, institutionalization. The institutionalization of elite replacement began in China in the 1980s and quickly accelerated...

   To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge
2. Elites and Governance in China

   Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chien-wen Kou

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Understanding Chinese Society

   Edited by Xiaowei Zang

   As China gains power – economically, politically, and militarily – and interaction between the Chinese and people outside China increases, it becomes more and more important that we understand the social factors that influence the daily lives of China's population. This new...

   Published October 9th 2011 by Routledge
4. Islam, Family Life, and Gender Inequality in Urban China

   By Xiaowei Zang

   Series: Routledge Studies on Ethnicity in Asia

   This book studies the relationship between Islam, family processes, and gender inequality among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi, China. Empirically, it shows in quantitative terms the extent of gender inequalities among Uyghur Muslims in Ürümchi and tests whether the gender inequalities are a difference...

   Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge
5. Ethnicity and Urban Life in China

   A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese

   By Xiaowei Zang

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people,...

   Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
6. Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China

   By Xiaowei Zang

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese...

   Published October 22nd 2003 by Routledge