China Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. China's Development Challenges

   Economic Vulnerability and Public Sector Reform

   By Richard Schiere

   Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy

   This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor. It demonstrates how in China many of the recent reforms to the public sector, such as decentralisation from central...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

   By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

   Series: China Policy Series

   This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an...

   Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. China's Rise in the World ICT Industry

   Industrial Strategies and the Catch-Up Development Model

   By Lutao Ning

   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 March 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. China and Africa Development Relations

   Edited by Christopher M. Dent

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition

   A Place called Shangrila

   By Ashild Kolas

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic...

   Published June 12th 2011 by Routledge