Routledge Contemporary China Series
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Economy Hotels in China
A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Based on dedicated studies on the economy hotel sector in China, this book provides a comprehensive overview of a hospitality sector which has emerged only in the past decade of China's transitional economy. The author argues that this rapid development demonstrates ...
To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Christian Values in Communist China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China, Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the new post-socialist Chinese outlook. It shows how although Christianity is viewed in China as a foreign religion, promoted by Christian missionaries...
To Be Published October 31st 2013 by Routledge
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China's Supreme Court
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the role and work of China’s supreme court – the Supreme People’s Court – focusing especially on the court’s role in the struggle concerning the establishment of the rule of law in China’s judicial system. It discusses the differing positions of those who favour “the rule...
To Be Published October 29th 2013 by Routledge
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Chinese Environmental Aesthetics
by Wangheng Chen, translated by Feng Su, edited by Gerald Cipriani
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems. This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty, and discusses how these ideas can be applied in...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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New Confucianism in Twenty-First Century China
The Construction of a Discourse
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores how Confucian thought, which was the ideological underpinning of traditional, imperial China, is being developed and refined into a New Confucianism relevant for the twenty-first century. It traces the development of Confucian thought, examines significant new texts, and shows...
To Be Published November 7th 2013 by Routledge
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Railway Reform in China
A Train of Property Rights Re-arrangements
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Western literature always prescribes that the best model for railway reform is privatization. China’s leadership has also enunciated the state’s determination to re-arrange property rights and rejuvenate corporate governance. But is China’s railway reform really a story of convergence? Will the...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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Islam and China's Hong Kong
Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
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
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Queer Sinophone Cultures
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender. Bringing...
To Be Published November 4th 2013 by Routledge
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The Politics of Controlling Organized Crime in Greater China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the specific role of government institutions and agencies, notably the police, in controlling organised crime, corruption and cross-border crime in Greater China. Drawing heavily on original empirical data which compares both a dejure nation-state like the People’s Republic...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China
Becoming a 'Modern' Man
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...
Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Rural Migrants in Urban China
Enclaves and Transient Urbanism
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’...
To Be Published August 4th 2013 by Routledge
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Chinese Middle Classes
China, Taiwan, Macao and Hong Kong
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book uses both systematic survey data analysis and case studies to portray and compare the emerging middle classes in four ethnic-Chinese societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Urban China) and explores whether or not there are uniquely ethnic Chinese middle classes that can be...
To Be Published November 14th 2013 by Routledge
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Disruptive Innovation in Chinese and Indian Businesses
The Strategic Implications for Local Entrepreneurs and Global Incumbents
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
With the rapid development of China and India as new economic powers in global competition, an obvious question is whether these emerging economies are great opportunities or threats. Whilst answers are bound to differ depending on one’s perspective, it is increasingly clear that more local firms,...
Published February 24th 2013 by Routledge
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Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not...
To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Incentives for Innovation in China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
There is concern in China that the strategy which has delivered massive economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, that China’s economy is too dependent on low value added manufacturing and not enough based on high value technological innovation. This book assesses the policies implemented...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Sinologism
An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Media Power in Hong Kong
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Media ownership in Hong Kong, due to Hong Kong's special colonial and post-colonial situation, is strongly concentrated, with Hong Kong's public and independent media much weaker than their ‘Western’ counterparts. This book explores the impact of this on how events and phenonema are portrayed by...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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The Middle Class in Neoliberal China
Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...
Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
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The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China
China’s Freudian Slip
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the...
Published September 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Law and Fair Work in China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China’s economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working...
Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
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Western Bankers in China
Institutional Change and Corporate Governance
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The opening of China’s financial market to western banks was seen as a key plank of the economic reform programme. Despite the recent banking crisis and the idea that Chinese banks might supplant western banks in the global financial system, Chinese banks continue to suffer from fundamental...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Chinese Globalization
A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of...
Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Southern China
Industry, Development and Industrial Policy
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often...
Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
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State-Market Interactions in China's Reform Era
Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China’s tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully...
Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
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The Lahu Minority in Southwest China
A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social...
Published September 3rd 2012 by Routledge
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Social Capital and Institutional Constraints
A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan and the US
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development....
Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context
Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Relations
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan...
Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
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The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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China, the West and the Myth of New Public Management
Neoliberalism and its Discontents
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from a very different economic and social landscape. Despite these differences however, similar measures to those introduced in the West have...
Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
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Mapping Media in China
Region, Province, Locality
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes, and...
Published May 27th 2012 by Routledge
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Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of China’s law reforms. The chapters examine China’s ‘going out’ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as...
Published April 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Mao’s China and the Sino-Soviet Split
Ideological Dilemma
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War. Why did the Sino-Soviet alliance, hailed by its creators as "unbreakable", "eternal", and as representing "brotherly solidarity", break up? Why did their relations eventually evolve into open hostility and...
Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
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Sino-Latin American Economic Relations
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book analyses the economic and policy relationships between China and Latin America. One of the major economic developments in the world in the 21st century is the rise of Asia, particularly the rise of China. How does the rise of China affect the trade and investment of Latin American...
Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
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Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China
Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...
Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
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International Governance and Regimes
A Chinese Perspective
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book examines China’s involvement in international governance, international regimes, and globalization. Peter Kien-hong Yu offers a new framework with which to understand ‘international regimes’ and applies it to important Chinese case studies such as arms control, disarmament, and...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
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HIV/AIDS in China - The Economic and Social Determinants
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
South and East Asia may well become the epicentres of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. More than three-quarters of a million people are now estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in China. In 2009, AIDS had already become the leading cause of death by infectious disease. Yet, even despite China’s recent...
Published November 22nd 2011 by Routledge
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Poverty and Development in China
Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s...
Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
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China's New Underclass
Paid Domestic Labour
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give rise to paid domestic work in a socialist economy, and goes on to look at the need for social protection of domestic workers within cities in...
Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge
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In Search of China's Development Model
Beyond the Beijing Consensus
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’s Development Model (CDM) is examined with a view to answering a central question: given China’s peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed...
Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Politics and Markets in Rural China
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
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Education Reform in China
Changing concepts, contexts and practices
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Over the past decade there has been radical reform at all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations. Changes have been made to pedagogy and teacher professional learning and also to the curriculum - both at the basic education level...
Published May 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving
Raising Little Suns in Xiamen
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the effects of China’s one child policy on modern Chinese families. It is widely thought that such a policy has contributed to the creation of a generation of little emperors or little suns spoiled by their parents and by the grandparents who have been recruited to care for the...
Published May 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Social Policy and Migration in China
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fan’s discussion examines migration regulations, household registration, social welfare and insurance, employment, education, housing, medical care and...
Published May 11th 2011 by Routledge
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China, Oil and Global Politics
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour....
Published May 9th 2011 by Routledge
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China's Changing Workplace
Dynamism, diversity and disparity
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors’ extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of...
Published April 18th 2011 by Routledge
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Leisure and Power in Urban China
Everyday life in a Chinese city
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a...
Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge
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Trade Unions in China
The Challenge of Labour Unrest
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that...
Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge
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Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia - A History
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
The recent conflict between indigenous Uyghurs and Han Chinese demonstrates that Xinjiang is a major trouble spot for China, with Uyghur demands for increased autonomy, and where Beijing’s policy is to more firmly integrate the province within China. This book provides an account of how China’s...
Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge