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])
Perceiving Plato's Concern
1st Edition
By Keping Wang
April 01, 2025
This book mainly delves into the practical moral poetics in Plato's late masterpiece, the Laws, and applies a comparative approach to Plato's philosophizing and the Chinese way of thinking in the domains of art-making, cultivating a good life, and music-poetry education. Plato's main concern is ...
State Governance and Public Finance Theory: A Chinese Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Ma Jun, Gao Peiyong
March 31, 2025
This book explores the fundamental theories, methodologies, and innovative directions of public finance research, focusing on its relationship with and role in state governance. Public finance is the foundation and an important pillar of state governance. The two mutually reinforce each other at ...
Visual Culture in Contemporary China II
1st Edition
Edited
By Zhou Xian
March 31, 2025
The second in a two-volume series that explores the interplay between social transformation and visual culture in contemporary China, this book examines the profound changes in the cityscapes, visual regimes, and visual technologies that shape the aestheticization of everyday life. Drawing on an ...
Social Continuity and Rupture in Rural China I: The Internal Dynamics of the Huizhou Hyper-stability Structure
1st Edition
By Tang Lixing
March 21, 2025
As the first of a two-volume set examining the distinctive social structure and governance of Huizhou, China, this book focuses on the internal elements of this social functioning. From the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, Huizhou, a historic region in what is now Anhui...
Social Continuity and Rupture in Rural China II: The External Dynamics of the Huizhou Hyper-stability Structure
1st Edition
By Tang Lixing
March 21, 2025
As the second volume of a two-volume set that examines the distinctive social structure and governance of Huizhou, China, this book focuses on the external factors that influence and renew social functioning. From the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century, Huizhou, a historic...
Law and Literature: A Study Based on Traditional Chinese Drama
1st Edition
By Zhu Suli
March 19, 2025
Based on the texts of traditional Chinese dramas such as The Orphan of Zhao, Liang Shangbo and Zhu Yingtai, The Injustice to Dou E, and The Fifteen Strings of Cash, the book aims to broaden the scope of law and literature in China. Adopting a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach of legal ...
Economic Development in Modern China Before 1949
1st Edition
By Guan Quan
February 01, 2025
As the first volume of a two-volume set on Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development between 1912 and 1949 and unravels the overall level during that time. From the perspective of development economics, the two-volume set studies the economic history and ...
Cultural Representation and Cultural Studies
1st Edition
By Zhou Xian
January 30, 2025
From the perspective of critical cultural sociology, this book delves into the intertwining relations of cultural transformation and social evolution, illuminating contemporary Chinese culture’s landscape and underlying logic since the 1980s. With a special focus on the tensions among politics, ...
The Central Government-Funded Teacher Education Policy in China: Impacts on Career-Choice Motivation of Pre-service Teachers
1st Edition
By Yi Liu
January 30, 2025
This book utilises expectancy–value theory and undermining effect of extrinsic reward theory to examine the impact of the Central Government-Funded Teacher Education (CGFTE) policy on Chinese pre-service teachers' motivations for choosing the teaching profession. Quantitative data analysis ...
A Critical History of Contemporary Chinese Fiction
1st Edition
By Cheng Guangwei
December 31, 2024
This book studies the history of contemporary Chinese fiction criticism, highlighting the role of critics in shaping contemporary literary history. The author divides the history of contemporary Chinese fiction criticism into three periods: 1949–1976, 1977–1991, and 1992–2015. The first period saw ...
China's Social Credit: Theoretical, Empirical Research, and Countermeasures
1st Edition
By Zhai Xuewei, Huang Xiaoye
December 19, 2024
This book analyses credit crisis issues in China from the aspect of individuals, enterprises, and government through investigations of six Chinese urban and rural areas. After China’s reform and opening up in the 1970s, a slew of new problems involving integrity, trust, and credit appeared with the...
Economic Development in Modern China Since 1949
1st Edition
By Guan Quan
December 19, 2024
As the second volume of a two-volume set on the Chinese economic history, this book investigates Chinese economic development since 1949, uncovering the momentum, unique models, and general laws of economy in China. From the perspective of development economics, the two-volume set studies the ...