China: From Revolution to Reform
About the Book Series
The China: From Revolution to Reform Series was launched by AUP to meet the rising influence of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as an economic, military, and political power in the world arena. Forty years after the Chinese Communist Party kicked off the reform, the PRC is now poised to surpass the United States as the world’s greatest economy. A more confident and powerful PRC coupled with increasingly rich primary sources have drawn tremendous interest from scholars around the world. The primary focus of this series will be the PRC in the new era with somewhat dual attention to previous periods such as the Republic of China (1912-1949) and the late Qing (1644-1911), both of which are not only intertwined with and inseparable from the PRC but also crucial to our better understanding of the PRC. This series invites studies from a wide variety of disciplines and topics in politics, law, history, diplomacy, gender, and the like. Researches in earlier periods of 20th century China, Taiwan, or Hong Kong are also welcome.
Freedom of the Press in China: A Conceptual History, 1831-1949
1st Edition
By Yi Guo
December 01, 2025
Western commentators have often criticized the state of press freedom in China, arguing that individual speech still suffers from arbitrary restrictions and that its mass media remains under an authoritarian mode. Yet the history of press freedom in the Chinese context has received little ...
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019
1st Edition
By Francis Lee, Joseph Man Chan
December 01, 2025
Memories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on ...
Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Gil Hizi
December 01, 2025
This volume takes readers on a journey into a central aspect of life in China, so-called “self-development.” Whether prompted by the cultural values of educational success, capitalist competition for wealth, or the Chinese Communist Party’s prescriptions for “good” citizenship, few people in China ...
The Chinese Communist Youth League: Juniority and Responsiveness in a Party Youth Organization
1st Edition
By Konstantinos Tsimonis
December 01, 2025
The Chinese Communist Youth League is the largest youth political organization in the world, with over 80 million members. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao was a firm supporter of the League, and believed that it could play a bigger role in winning the hearts and minds of Chinese youth by ...
The Communist Judicial System in China, 1927-1976: Building on Fear
1st Edition
By Qiang Fang
December 01, 2025
Drawing on hundreds of newly released judicial archives and court cases, this book analyzes the communist judicial system in China from its founding period to the death of Mao Zedong. It argues that the communist judicial system was built when the CCP was engaged in a life-or-death struggle with ...
The Guangdong Model and Taxation in China: Formation, Development, and Characteristics of China's Modern Financial System
1st Edition
By Jin-A Kang
December 01, 2025
This book explores the formation, development, and characteristics of modern China's finance, focusing especially on Guangdong province as a case study to illustrate both the macro-level trends and the micro-level reality. The chronological range of this book is mainly from the late Qing period to ...
The Inner Court of Communist China: Elites and Their Bureaucratic Institutions in an Authoritarian System (1921-2022)
1st Edition
By Wen-Hsuan Tsai
March 04, 2025
This book discusses the mishu (staff member, secretary) system and the operation of the Chinese Communist Party between 1921 and 2022, focusing on the system’s impact on high-level politics and decision-making during four key periods. Starting with the Revolutionary War (1921–1945), it moves to the...
Religion, Secularism, and Love as a Political Discourse in Modern China
1st Edition
By Ting Guo
February 13, 2025
What is the meaning of love in modern Chinese politics? Why has ai . (love) been a crucial political discourse for secular nationalism for generations of political leaders as a powerful instrument to the present day? This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion ...