China: Politics
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Chinese Politics and Government
Power, Ideology and Organization
Over the past two decades, China’s political reforms, open-door policy, dramatic economic growth, and increasingly assertive foreign policy have had an unprecedented regional and global impact. This introductory textbook provides students with a fundamental understanding of government and politics...
Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Charting China's Future
Domestic and International Challenges
Every day and everywhere, China figures prominently in global attention: companies and banks weigh billions in investments; hedge fund managers assess and speculate on downside risks; commodity traders and natural resource producers salivate over China’s energy appetite; intelligence agencies...
Published June 26th 2011 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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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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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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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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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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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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China’s Strategic Competition with the United States
Series: Routledge Security in Asia Series
This book examines the transformation and the multifaceted nature of the relationship between US and China in the post-Cold War era. It examines their nature and implications of their strategic competition in military, political and economic terms, as well as in relation to Taiwan, Japan, the...
Published October 19th 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 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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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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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 Civil Service Reform
Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China’s outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number...
Published April 1st 2012 by Routledge
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Towards a New Development Paradigm in Twenty-First Century China
Economy, Society and Politics
Series: Comparative Development and Policy in Asia
This book argues that the current state of China requires an important paradigm shift in the way the party-state manages the country’s development, and goes on to assess the fitness of the party-state for implementing such a paradigm shift and the likelihood of the party-state bringing this about....
Published August 22nd 2012 by Routledge
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China's Road to Peaceful Rise
Observations on its Cause, Basis, Connotation and Prospect
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
Zheng Bijian has been one of the most influential thinkers and policy formulators in China during its reform period. In the early 1990s he worked with Deng Xiaoping collating and publishing Deng’s speeches and as vice president of the Party School gave top priority to ensuring that members of...
Published December 14th 2011 by Routledge
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Thirty Years of China's Reform
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it...
Published March 14th 2012 by Routledge
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The Role of American NGOs in China's Modernization
Invited Influence
Series: Asia's Transformations
In the waning years of the Cold War, the United States and China began to cautiously engage in cultural, educational, and policy exchanges, which in turn strengthened new security and economic ties. These links have helped shape the most important bilateral relationship in the late-twentieth and...
Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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China's Climate Change Policies
China is becoming a rising star in global economical and political affairs. Both internationally and within China itself, people have great expectations of its future role. This book aims to clarify many aspects of China’s key position in the climate change situation and policy debates. However,...
Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge
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Chinese Foreign Policy
An Introduction, 2nd Edition
This updated and expanded new edition of Chinese Foreign Policy examines the patterns of engagement with various domestic and international actors that have shaped Beijing’s foreign policy since the Cold War. It explores a series of ongoing questions and trends, as well as offering an in-depth look...
Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
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China Constructing Capitalism
Economic Life and Urban Change
Series: International Library of Sociology
China has been growing at over ten per cent annually since 1978, but this has only come to very widespread notice in the past decade. This received wisdom about China has been largely of two types, both of which – more or less – understand China in the context of neoliberalism. The more business-...
To Be Published August 19th 2013 by Routledge
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Contemporary China - An Introduction
This book presents a concise introduction to contemporary China. It is intended as a first book for those coming new to the subject, providing the essential information that most people need to know, without going into excessive detail. Its coverage includes the economy, society, politics and...
Published November 18th 2008 by Routledge