China Perspectives
About the Book Series
The China Perspectives series focuses on publishing original and translated works by leading Chinese scholars, writing about both global topics and China-related themes. It represents the complete portfolio of Taylor & Francis Books in China, which covers Humanities & Social Sciences, Education, Mental Health and Psychology, Science and Technology, Engineering, as well as many interdisciplinary themes.
This is the first time that any of these books have been published or translated into English for international readers. The series aims to put forward a Chinese perspective, give insights into cutting-edge academic thinking in China, and inspire researchers globally.
To submit proposals, please contact the Taylor & Francis Publisher for China Publishing Programme, Lian Sun ([email protected])
China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19: Actions from Government, Schools, Enterprises, and Families
1st Edition
By Zehui Zhan, Liming Huo, Xiao Yao, Baichang Zhong
September 25, 2023
This book investigates how schools, enterprises and families in China have coped with the formal online education in the light of government policy throughout the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, with special focus on the problems they have encountered and possible solutions. Using grounded theory, over...
China’s New Normal, Supply-side, and Structural Reform
1st Edition
By Cai Fang
September 25, 2023
China’s continuous, rapid economic growth since the Reform and Opening up of the country in the early 1980s has been praised as a miracle of the world economy. However, since 2012, the rate of growth has slowed down, rendering some people pessimistic about the country’s economic prospects. This ...
Constructing Social Support Systems for Left-behind and Migrant Children in China
1st Edition
By Ling Li
September 25, 2023
The book studies the educational needs of two disadvantaged groups of children in China (left-behind children in rural areas and migrant children in urban areas), aiming to optimize the social support system so that these disadvantaged children can realize their full potential. The author ...
Elasticity and Toughness: Ethnography of Minban Teachers’ Policy Implementation in Rural Chinese Society
1st Edition
By Feng Wei
September 25, 2023
This book examines minban teacher policies and their implementation in China between 1949 and 2000, when rural areas were in severe shortage of qualified teachers. During this period of time, minban teachers made great contributions to education, doing the same work as state-employed school ...
Environmental Risk Communication in China: Actors, Issues, and Governance
1st Edition
By Jia Dai, Fanxu Zeng
September 25, 2023
The role of media is becoming increasingly important as globalization has developed. Given fast social transformation and technological development in China, the consequent environmental and health risks demand citizens integrate the communication and prevention of such risks as a significant part ...
Fintech: Frontier and Beyond
1st Edition
By Zhong Xu, Chuanwei Zou
September 25, 2023
Fintech, the integration of technology into the delivery of financial services, has revolutionized the world of Finance. This book introduces a new framework to study the concepts that underly Fintech while examining the driving forces and underlying logic behind Fintech-based innovation and ...
International Comparative Perspectives on the Treatment of “Urban Diseases”: Reflections on the Low-Carbon Development of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region
1st Edition
By Lu Xiaocheng
September 25, 2023
With an integration of theories, comparative and empirical studies, this book aims to find a treatment for Beijing’s “urban diseases” and coordinate a low-carbon development plan for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region in China. Unprecedented industrialization and unconventional urbanization caused a ...
Intertextuality in the English Translations of San Guo Yan Yi
1st Edition
By Wenqing Peng
September 25, 2023
San Guo Yan Yi is one of the best-known classic Chinese novels in the English-speaking world. The earliest English translation came out in 1820, while a range of further translations have been produced over the past two hundred years. How do the different versions relate to each other? This volume...
Introduction to Contemporary Art in China
1st Edition
By Lao Zhu
September 25, 2023
The book is a collection of fifteen introductory essays excerpted from the Annual of Contemporary Art in China, covering the years from 2005 to 2019, showcasing the development and changing landscapes of contemporary art in China. The Annual documents exhibitions, events, creative practices, and ...
Investment and Interventions to Improve the Quality of Education Systems
1st Edition
By Jin Chi, Eduardo Velez Bustillo
September 25, 2023
Quality improvement is a major current goal of Education in China and this will be achieved through overall quality improvement of the education system as a whole, a situation that is also the case across the world. Deploying a cost-benefit analysis and multidisciplinary perspectives from ...
Migrant Children in State/Quasi-state Schools in Urban China: From Access to Quality?
1st Edition
By Hui Yu
September 25, 2023
Highlighting the changing landscape of Chinese urban state schools under the pressure of recruiting a tremendous number of migrant children, this book examines the quality of state educational provisions from demographic, institutional, familial and cultural angles. Rooted in rich qualitative data ...
No School Left Behind: Implementation of China’s New Mathematics Curriculum Reform (2000–2020)
1st Edition
By Wei Gao, Xianwei Liu
September 25, 2023
Based on the fieldwork carried out at two elementary schools, Merits School and Pioneer School, in northeastern China, the monograph details how local schools enacted the New Mathematics Curriculum Reform that was launched in early 2000. The trajectory of the reform implementation at each ...