Chinese Studies Books

New and Published Books – Page 1

1. Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China

   Great Transformations Reconsidered

   By Francesca Bray

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship

   What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world,...

   Published June 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Beijing Olympics: Promoting China

   Soft and Hard Power in Global Politics

   Edited by Kevin Caffrey

   The Beijing 2008 Olympic ceremonies were spectacular performances and technological accomplishments by the People’s Republic of China. However, the audience in Beijing was only the most overt element of a global audience receiving the message of the Games. For this global audience, the Beijing...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Tourism in China

   Destination, Cultures and Communities

   Edited by Chris Ryan, Gu Huimin

   Series: Routledge Advances in Tourism

   China is forecast to be the primary tourist destination and tourist-generating country by 2020. However, much of the writing on tourism in China has come from people within the English academic world who are not involved in the issues related to Chinese tourism development. This book provides...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Grassroots Elections in China

   Edited by Kevin O'Brien, Suisheng Zhao

   Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Jews and Judaism in Modern China

   By M. Avrum Ehrlich

   Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series

   Jews and Judaism in Modern China explores and compares the dynamics at work in two of the oldest, intact and starkly contrasting civilizations on earth; Jewish and Chinese. The book studies how they interact in modernity and how each civilization views the other, and analyses areas of cooperation...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
6. Women and Heroin Addiction in China's Changing Society

   By Huan Gao

   Series: Routledge Advances in Criminology

   Accompanying China’s economic reform and open-door policy in 1978, illicit drug use emerged in the late 1980s, and gradually developed into a serious social problem. Heroin was the dominant illicit drug consumed in the new drug epidemic, and the number of female heroin users has increased rapidly...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Urban Youth in China: Modernity, the Internet and the Self

   By Fengshu Liu

   Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

   Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
8. Asian Perspectives on Teacher Education

   Edited by Shin'ichi Suzuki, Edward R. Howe

   Research into teacher education is dominated by Anglophone literature, with the inevitable result that teacher education in non-English speaking regions of the world largely remains unexamined. This book fills the gap in the existing literature and comprises twelve invited contributions from an...

   Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge
9. 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 May 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Tiger Girls

    Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

    By Minglu Chen

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

    Published May 30th 2013 by Routledge