China Policy Series
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Government Reform and Governance in China's Local State
Series: China Policy Series
After three decades of change in China, the central government’s attempts to establish a harmonious society are being challenged by popular protests and social unrest. These challenges have been attributed to improper or ineffective local governance. This book examines government reform and...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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Governing Health in Contemporary China
Series: China Policy Series
The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the...
Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge
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New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations
How Far Can the Rapprochement Go?
Series: China Policy Series
Relations between mainland China and Taiwan have improved markedly in recent years, giving rise to the key question, How far can the current rapprochement go? This book focuses on how mainland China-Taiwan relations are likely to develop in future. It considers economic relations, including the...
Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
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Social Protest in Contemporary China, 2003-2010
Transitional Pains and Regime Legitimacy
Series: China Policy Series
China's economic transformation has brought with it much social dislocation, which in turn has led to much social protest. This book presents a comprehensive analysis of the large-scale mass incidents which have taken place in the last decade. The book analyses these incidents systematically,...
To Be Published September 11th 2013 by Routledge
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China and the European Union
Series: China Policy Series
The European Union is China’s largest trading partner, and Chinese views of the EU are of crucial importance in shaping how the relationship will develop in the future, especially as the new Chinese leadership takes power. This book presents the findings of an extensive research project into the...
Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Social Mobility and Class Structure in Contemporary China
Series: China Policy Series
Market reform in China has led not just to economic growth, but also to a momentous transformation of Chinese society, with the simple, enclosed, rigid peasant hierarchy of the Mao era being replaced by an open, modern and evolving system. Most studies of social change in China have focused on...
To Be Published March 30th 2014 by Routledge
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The Rise of Think Tanks in China
Series: China Policy Series
Despite continuing criticism of the Chinese authoritarian political system, the range of participants in the decision-making process has widened, with different social actors now playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese policymaking process. Accordingly, the role of think tanks in the...
Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Internal and International Migration
Series: China Policy Series
One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a...
Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Challenges to Human Security
Foreign Relations and Global Implications
Series: China Policy Series
This book looks at human security in China’s foreign relations. It discusses the concept and theory of human security, and their implications for China. The book goes on to analyse environmental security issues, including climate change and water resources, as well as looking at issues from an...
Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Chinese Society - Change and Transformation
Series: China Policy Series
There is growing interest in social transformation in contemporary China, with much work published on the subject. This book is different from other books in that it presents an overview of the work of Chinese sociologists on how Chinese society is changing. It reports on a great deal of original...
Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Climate Policy
Series: China Policy Series
To understand China’s climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the...
Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Soft Power and International Relations
Series: China Policy Series
China’s soft power has attracted considerable attention in the recent decade. In this volume scholars from the U.K., Europe, the U.S., Singapore, Australia, Hong Kong and mainland China, including a number of well established and well known analysts on China, examine main areas where China has made...
Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Political Culture and Participation in Rural China
Series: China Policy Series
Despite China’s rapid urbanisation and industrialisation, most Chinese still live in the vast countryside or have rural household registration. Although there was significant economic improvement in rural areas in the 1980s, the rural economy has been stagnating or deteriorating since then, and the...
Published December 20th 2011 by Routledge
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China Engages Global Governance
A New World Order in the Making?
Series: China Policy Series
This book focuses on China’s increasing involvement in global governance as a result of the phenomenal rise of its economy and global power. It examines whether and in what ways China is capable of participating in multilateral interactions; if it is willing and able to provide global public goods...
Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
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China's Crisis Management
Series: China Policy Series
The continuation of China’s successful rise depends considerably on the capacity of the Chinese government to prevent and manage a wide range of potential and actual crises, which could, if mishandled, have serious adverse consequences for China. These potential crises are both domestic - where the...
Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge
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Higher Education Reform in China
Beyond the Expansion
Series: China Policy Series
A major transformation of Chinese higher education (HE) has taken place over the past decade – China has reshaped its higher education sector from elite to mass education with the number of graduates having quadrupled to three million a year over six years. China is exceptional among lower income...
Published March 28th 2011 by Routledge
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The Institutional Dynamics of China's Great Transformation
Series: China Policy Series
This book examines the role of institutions in China’s recent large-scale economic, social and political transformation. The book argues that, although the importance of institutions in China’s rapid economic growth and social development over the past 30 years is widely acknowledged, exactly how...
Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
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The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
Series: China Policy Series
The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance. This consisted of six weeks of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in...
Published November 8th 2010 by Routledge
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Legitimating the Chinese Communist Party Since Tiananmen
A Critical Analysis of the Stability Discourse
Series: China Policy Series
The dominant view concerning the rule of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is that it is simply a matter of time before it comes to an end. This view has been dominant since the pro-democracy protests in 1989 and has only been strengthened by the increasing number of protests in recent years....
Published August 3rd 2010 by Routledge
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China and International Relations
The Chinese View and the Contribution of Wang Gungwu
Series: China Policy Series
Despite Beijing’s repeated assurance that China’s rise will be "peaceful", the United States, Japan and the European Union as well as many of China's Asian neighbours feel uneasy about the rise of China. Although China’s rise could be seen as inevitable, it remains uncertain as to how a politically...
Published August 2nd 2010 by Routledge
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The Challenge of Labour in China
Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories
Series: China Policy Series
China’s economic success has been founded partly on relatively cheap labour, especially in the export industries. In recent years, however, there has been growing concern about wages and labour standards in China. This book examines how wages are bargained, fought over and determined in China, by...
Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
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The Domestic Sources of China's Foreign Policy
Regimes, Leadership, Priorities and Process
Series: China Policy Series
As China’s political and economic influence in the world is rapidly increasing, it is essential to understand how China’s domestic politics affects its foreign political and economic policy. This book offers an accessible, informative and up-to-date systemic analysis of the foreign policy of China....
Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
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China's Trade Unions - How Autonomous Are They?
A Survey of 1811 Enterprise Union Chairpersons
Series: China Policy Series
This book examines the status of trade unions in contemporary China, exploring the degree to which trade unions have been reformed as China is increasingly integrated into the global economy, and discussing the key question of how autonomous China’s trade unions are. Based on an extensive,...
Published December 13th 2009 by Routledge
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The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor
Culture, reproduction, and transformation
Series: China Policy Series
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is the largest and one of the most powerful, political organizations in the world today, which has played a crucial role in initiating most of the major reforms of the past three decades in China. China’s rapid rise has enabled the CCP to extend its influence...
Published December 2nd 2009 by Routledge
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China's Local Administration
Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy
Series: China Policy Series
The remarkable changes in China over the past three decades are mostly considered at the national level, whereas local government – which has played and continues to play a key role in these developments – is often overlooked. The themes of China’s local administrative hierarchy, and its historical...
Published September 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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China's Rise in the World ICT Industry
Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model
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 May 31st 2009 by Routledge
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Environmental Activism in China
Series: China Policy Series
Major environmental degradation is a serious problem for China as the country's economy continues to grow at a phenomenal pace. In recent years environmental organisations have begun to emerge in China, and in some cases have had remarkable success in affecting policies which would have had...
Published April 29th 2009 by Routledge
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Socialist China, Capitalist China
Social tension and political adaptation under economic globalization
Series: China Policy Series
China is currently encountering increasing social problems, together with the rise of mass discontent and public protest, despite having achieved enormous economic growth after nearly thirty years of market socialism and embracing globalization. The future of China thus depends not only on the...
Published March 26th 2009 by Routledge
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China's Information and Communications Technology Revolution
Social changes and state responses
Series: China Policy Series
In recent years, China has experienced a revolution in information and communications technology (ICT), in 2003 surpassing the USA as the world’s largest telephone market, and as of February 2008, the number of Chinese Internet users has become the largest in the world. At the same time, China...
Published March 18th 2009 by Routledge