China Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. Low Carbon Development

   Key Issues

   Edited by Frauke Urban, Johan Nordensvärd

   Series: Key Issues in Environment and Sustainability

   Low Carbon Development: Key Issues is the first comprehensive textbook to address the interface between international development and climate change in a carbon constrained world. It discusses the key conceptual, empirical and policy-related issues of low carbon development and takes an...

   Published March 6th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Chinese City

   By Weiping Wu, Piper Gaubatz

   China’s cities are home to 10 percent of the world’s population today. They display unprecedented dynamism under the country’s surging economic power. Their remarkable transformation builds on immense traditions, having lived through feudal dynasties, semicolonialism, and socialist commands....

   Published October 11th 2012 by Routledge
4. China's Development Challenges

   Economic Vulnerability and Public Sector Reform

   By Richard Schiere

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor. It demonstrates how in China many of the recent reforms to the public sector, such as decentralisation from central...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
5. Agricultural Development in China and Africa

   A Comparative Analysis

   By Li Xiaoyun, Qi Gubo, Tang Lixia, Zhao Lixia, Jin Leshan, Guo Zhanfeng, Wu Jin

   Many African countries are increasingly interested in learning from China's experiences in achieving effective agricultural development. The Chinese government and academic community are also keen to share experiences and lessons with Africa. China made agriculture one of its development assistance...

   Published April 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

   By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

   Series: China Policy Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. China and Globalization

   The Social, Economic and Political Transformation of Chinese Society, 3rd Edition

   By Doug Guthrie

   Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2009! In its quarter-century-long shift from communism to capitalism, China has transformed itself from a desperately poor nation into a country with one of the fastest-growing and largest economies in the world. Doug Guthrie examines the reforms driving the...

   Published April 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. China's Rise in the World ICT Industry

   Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model

   By Lutao Ning

   Series: China Policy Series

   One of the most striking phenomena of China’s remarkable economic growth is that its huge volume of exports are becoming high-tech. China is now the world's largest Information and Communication Technology (ICT) exporter, having overtaken Japan and the European Union in 2003 and the United States...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
9. Police Reform in China

   By Kam C. Wong

   Series: Advances in Police Theory and Practice

   With nearly 20 percent of the world’s population located in China, what happens there is significant to all nations. Sweeping changes have altered the cultural landscape of China, and as opportunities for wealth have grown in recent years, so have opportunities for crime. Police Reform in China...

   Published October 10th 2011 by CRC Press
10. Politics and Markets in Rural China

    Edited by Björn Alpermann

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the reform era in China which saw important changes in agriculture and rural organizations, but it is clear that certain entrenched legacies from pre-reform China still linger on even after WTO accession, most importantly the key role played by state...

    Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge