Chinese Studies Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Sport and Nationalism in China

   By Zhouxiang Lu, Fan Hong

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   This is the first book to comprehensively map the relationships between sport, nationalism and nation building in China. By exploring the last 150 years of Chinese history, it offers unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage and provides a clear grasp of Chinese sports nationalism from both macro...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. Popular Culture in Taiwan

   Charismatic Modernity

   Edited by Marc Moskowitz

   Series: Routledge Research on Taiwan Series

   The growing field of popular culture studies in Taiwan can be divided into two distinct academic trends; a different analytical framework is used to examine either locally oriented popular culture or transnational pop culture. This volume combine these two academic trends, firstly by revealing that...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
3. China Turned On

   Television, Reform and Resistance

   By James Lull

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Television

   The years following the Cultural Revolution saw the arrival of television as part of China’s effort to ‘modernize’ and open up to the West. Endorsed by the Deng Xiaoping regime as a ‘bridge’ between government and the people, television became at once the official mouthpiece of the Communist Party...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China

   Imagined Immunity Through Racialized Disease

   By Johanna Hood

   Series: Media, Culture and Social Change in Asia Series

   Approximately 90% of urban HIV/AIDS education in China occurs indirectly through non-specialist media reports. Many of these reports use images of extreme suffering and poverty to communicate an understanding of who gets HIV, why and how. This book explores an important aspect of how HIV/AIDS is...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. Foreign Direct Investment in China

   Spillover Effects on Domestic Enterprises

   By Ziliang Deng

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This book provides an insightful exploration of whether foreign direct investment (FDI) can promote the productivity of domestic enterprises. The book is based on a series of dedicated research conducted in the context of the Chinese economy, which has been the largest FDI host among the developing...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Chinese/Vietnamese Diaspora

   Revisiting the boat people

   Edited by Yuk Wah Chan

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Over three decades have passed since the first wave of Indochinese refugees left their homelands. These refugees, mainly the Vietnamese, fled from war and strife in search of a better life elsewhere. By investigating the Vietnamese diaspora in Asia, this book sheds new light on the Asian refugee...

   Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge
7. Islam and China's Hong Kong

   Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

   By Wai-Yip Ho

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
8. Handbook of the Economics and Political Economy of Transition

   Edited by Paul Hare, Gerard Turley

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   Transition from central planning to a market economy, involving large-scale institutional change and reforms at all levels, is often described as the greatest social science experiment in modern times. As more than two decades have passed since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
9. Present Day Political Organization of China

   By H.S. Brunnert, V.V. Hagelstrom

   Originally published in 1910, this work presents a fascinating insight into the government and administration of the China of the day. The period was one of immense change as China's leaders turned the nation towards modernity. As student interpreters to the Imperial Russian Legation, the authors...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
10. Foreign Direct Investment in China

    Theories and Practices

    By Michael Ng

    Foreign direct investment has contributed significantly in transforming the Chinese economy over the past three decades. China has become one of the most popular destinations for foreign direct investment. For corporations and business executives who desire to participate in the expanding China...

    Published April 23rd 2013 by Routledge