Chinese Studies Books

New and Published Books – Page 2

11. Sustainable Development in China

    Edited by Curtis Andressen, A.R. Mubarak, Xiaoyi Wang

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Over the past three decades, China’s economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China’s enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish,...

    Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
12. Urban Schools and English Language Education in Late Modern China

    A Critical Sociolinguistic Ethnography

    By Miguel Pérez-Milans

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism

    This book explores the meaning of modernization in contemporary Chinese education. It examines the implications of the implementation of reforms in English language education for experimental-urban schools in the People’s Republic of China. Pérez-Milans sheds light on how national, linguistic, and...

    Published April 15th 2013 by Routledge
13. China's Rise in Africa

    Perspectives on a Developing Connection

    Edited by Ian Taylor, Dominik Kopinski, Andrzej Polus

    In seeking to cultivate external relations with African countries, China has long stressed its commonly shared roots with African nations as a developing country rather than a Western state, and as such the symbolic attraction of China clearly reverberates with many African elites who seem to look...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
14. Consumer-Citizens of China

    The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China

    By Kelly Tian, Lily Dong

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    This book presents a comprehensive examination of Chinese consumer behaviour and challenges the previously dichotomous interpretation of the consumption of Western and non-Western brands in China. The dominant position is that Chinese consumers are driven by a desire to imitate the lifestyles of...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
15. Prospects for the Professions in China

    Edited by William P Alford, William Kirby, Kenneth Winston

    Series: Routledge Studies on Civil Society in Asia

    Professionals are a growing group in China and increasingly make their presence felt in governance and civil society. At the same time, however, professionals in the West are under increasing pressure from commercialism or scepticism about their ability to rise above self-interest. This book...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
16. The Politics of Culture

    Around the Work of Naoki Sakai

    Edited by Richard Calichman, John Namjun Kim

    Series: Routledge/Leiden Series in Modern East Asian Politics, History and Media

    Naoki Sakai is an important and prominent thinker in Asian and cultural studies and his work continues to make itself felt across a broad range of both national and disciplinary borders. Originally finding a home in the otherwise circumscribed field of Japan Studies, Sakai’s writings have succeeded...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
17. Policing Serious Crime in China

    From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'

    By Susan Trevaskes

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
18. The Chinese State's Retreat from Health

    Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment

    By Jane Duckett

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
19. Overseas Chinese, Ethnic Minorities and Nationalism

    De-Centering China

    By Elena Barabantseva

    Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

    Elena Barabantseva looks at the close relationship between state-led nationalism and modernisation, with specific reference to discourses on the overseas Chinese and minority nationalities. The interplay between modernisation programmes and nationalist discourses has shaped China’s national project...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
20. Diaspora Literature and Visual Culture

    Asia in Flight

    By Sheng-mei Ma

    Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

    This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-mei Ma’s engaging text discusses issues of self and its relationship with Asian Diaspora culture in the global twenty-first century. Using examples...

    Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge