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91. Globalization and the Chinese City

    Edited by Fulong Wu

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed examination of the transformation of the built environment. A range of urban development processes...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
92. New Crime in China

    Public Order and Human Rights

    By Ronald Keith, Zhiqiu Lin

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Examining the crimes that have recently been of the greatest concern in China, the authors assess the imbalance between public order and human rights in the way the Chinese legal system deals with crime. The issue of crime is of particular importance, both because current social upheaval...

    Published April 28th 2009 by Routledge
93. Non-Governmental Organizations in Contemporary China

    Paving the Way to Civil Society?

    By Qiusha Ma

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Based on documentary materials including interviews with key players in China, this book charts the development of non-governmental and non-profit organizations in China from the late 1970s to the present day. It recounts how in the aftermath of the 1978 reforms that created a market economy...

    Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
94. Sex, Science and Morality in China

    By Joanna McMillan

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served? This ground-breaking book takes a critical look at how sex in China is thought and talked about. Drawing on the work of the country...

    Published April 14th 2009 by Routledge
95. China and Africa

    Engagement and Compromise

    By Ian Taylor

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as China’s hunger for energy resources grows and many...

    Published April 2nd 2009 by Routledge
96. China-US Relations Transformed

    Perspectives and Strategic Interactions

    Edited by Suisheng Zhao

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower in the post-Cold War World. Now that China is rising as an economic, political, and military power and has expanded its diplomatic...

    Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
97. Paying for Progress in China

    Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality

    Edited by Vivienne Shue, Christine Wong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country’s ‘haves’ and its ‘have-nots’. While people living in some parts of the country have enjoyed dramatically improved conditions of life, those in other districts and...

    Published September 22nd 2008 by Routledge
98. Hong Kong, China

    Learning to belong to a nation

    By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong...

    Published July 19th 2008 by Routledge
99. Political Change in Macao

    By Shiu-Hing Lo

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Since the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1999 Macao has undergone a multi-faceted transformation marked by persistent bureaucratic reforms, changing patterns and modes of political participation, internationalization and modernization, and competition and coordination with Macao’s...

    Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge
100. Sars

     Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

     Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

     Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

     SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...

     Published November 28th 2006 by Routledge