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81. Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong

    The Countdown of Time

    By Hai Ren

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in...

    Published August 10th 2010 by Routledge
82. Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China

    Agricultural Processing in Sichuan

    By Susanne Lingohr-Wolf

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of rural household...

    Published July 13th 2010 by Routledge
83. US-China Relations

    China policy on Capitol Hill

    By Tao Xie

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    With China’s rapid ascendance to great power status, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of the most important international relationships in the world today. This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policymaking in the U.S. Congress, which has...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
84. China's Emerging Cities

    The Making of New Urbanism

    Edited by Fulong Wu

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
85. China's State Enterprise Reform

    From Marx to the Market

    By John Hassard, Jackie Sheehan, Meixiang Zhou, Jane Terpstra-Tong, Jonathan Morris

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
86. China's Energy Geopolitics

    The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia

    By Thrassy N. Marketos

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese energy policy has been a political and strategic rather than market-driven policy. This book focuses on the need of a...

    Published April 7th 2010 by Routledge
87. Mobility, Migration and the Chinese Scientific Research System

    By Koen Jonkers

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s rise is having a large impact on the global science system. The internalisation of this system in the past two decades would not have been possible without the outbound and especially the return flows of overseas Chinese scientists. This book explores their impact combining macro-level...

    Published March 31st 2010 by Routledge
88. Innovation in China

    The Chinese Software Industry

    By Shang-Ling Jui

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    A key question for China, which has for some time been a leading global manufacturing base, is whether China can progress from being a traditional centre of manufacturing to becoming a centre for innovation. In this book, Shang-Ling Jui focuses on China’s software industry and examines the complete...

    Published January 20th 2010 by Routledge
89. Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China

    Institutional change and stability

    Edited by Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Using in-depth case studies of a wide-range of political, social and economic reforms in contemporary China this volume sheds light on the significance and consequences of institutional change for stability of the political system in China. The contributors examine how reforms shape and...

    Published December 14th 2009 by Routledge
90. China's Foreign Trade Policy

    The New Constituencies

    Edited by Ka Zeng

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that country’s involvement in the liberal international economic order. China’s Foreign Trade Policy sheds light on this complex question by examining the changing domestic forces shaping China’s foreign trade relations....

    Published May 20th 2009 by Routledge