Chinese Politics Books

New and Published Books

1. Chinese Industrial Espionage

   Technology Acquisition and Military Modernisation

   By William C. Hannas, James Mulvenon, Anna B. Puglisi

   Series: Asian Security Studies

   This new book is the first full account, inside or outside government, of China’s efforts to acquire foreign technology. Based on primary sources and meticulously researched, the book lays bare China’s efforts to prosper technologically through others' achievements. For decades, China has operated...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. Civilization and Empire

   China and Japan's Encounter with European International Society

   By Shogo Suzuki

   Series: New International Relations

   This book critically examines the influence of International Society on East Asia, and how its attempts to introduce ‘civilization’ to ‘barbarous’ polities contributed to conflict between China and Japan. Challenging existing works that have presented the expansion of (European) International...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
4. 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
5. The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution

   The Political Impact of Market

   By Lance Gore

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
6. Soft Power in Japan-China Relations

   State, sub-state and non-state relations

   By Utpal Vyas

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series

   Soft power has tended to be overlooked in the field of international relations, often dismissed as lacking relevance or robustness as a theoretical concept. This book seeks to expand upon the idea of ‘soft power’ in international relations and to investigate how it actually functions by looking at...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

   Social, Political and Environmental Issues

   Edited by Richard Hindmarsh

   Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

   Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
8. Elites and Governance in China

   Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chien-wen Kou

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
9. Politics in China since 1949

   Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule

   By Robert Weatherley

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China

    By Biliang Hu

    Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

    Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focusing in particular on...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge