China Policy Series
About the Book Series
With the rise of China and its impact on the world, interest in China has increased drastically in recent years. This series focuses on policy-oriented research and scholarly works with policy implications, on all aspects of contemporary Chinese economy, politics, society, environment, journalism and cultures. It also covers China’s foreign relations with major international organizations such as the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and World Bank, and major powers such as the United States, European Union (and its member states), Japan and others.
Digital Work and Digital Workers in Europe and China
1st Edition
Edited
By Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Wen Jun
August 25, 2025
This book is a study of digital workers across diverse contexts in China and Europe, giving valuable insight into their origins, abilities, and working conditions. As the growth of digital work changes the nature of work and employment and the consequences of this for individual workers, this book ...
China's Non-State Soft Power Actors: Tai Chi, Traditional Culture, and the Practice of Public Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Xiaoling Zhang, Tony Hong
December 18, 2024
This book enriches the evolving concept of soft power, and China’s approach to soft power, by considering how aspects of Chinese culture, notably the traditional martial art and health promoting exercise Tai Chi Quan, are being successfully promoted around the world by non-state actors, and how ...
How Weak Regionalism in East Asia Works Well: Beyond the Flying Geese Model
1st Edition
By Luna Ge Lai
October 31, 2024
This book investigates the reasons why regionalism in East Asia has been much weaker than in Western Europe and North America. It focuses particularly on economic factors, examining the regional and global linkages of production networks. Through a focused exploration of regional and global ...
China's Education Aid to Africa: Fragmented Soft Power
1st Edition
By Wei Ye
October 09, 2024
China’s rise as an aid provider in Africa has caught global attention, with China’s activity being viewed as the projection of soft power of a neo-colonialist kind in an international relations context. This book, which focuses on China’s education aid—government scholarships, training, Confucius ...
Great Power Strategies - The United States, China and Japan
1st Edition
By Quansheng Zhao
September 25, 2023
This book provides a comparative study of the strategies of great powers in the Asia-Pacific, namely, the United States, China and Japan, known as the Pacific Three. It examines the evolution of each power’s strategic thinking and analyzes the three powers’ respective foreign policies and internal ...
Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan: Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions
1st Edition
By Beatrice Zani
May 31, 2023
This book, based on extensive original research, explores the lives, the migratory experiences and the social, economic, and emotional practices of Chinese migrant women during their migrations and mobilities in China, from China to Taiwan, from Taiwan to China and in between the two countries. It ...
The War on Corruption in China: Local Reform and Innovation
1st Edition
By Sunny L. Yang
December 30, 2022
Having engaged in an intensified war against corruption for more than four decades since the period of reform and opening up, China is now at a turning point in its anti-corruption agenda. Many believe that building government integrity has been a top-down process in China, and the anti-corruption ...
Civilization and the Chinese Body Politic
1st Edition
By Yongnian Zheng
November 22, 2022
In this important and hugely ambitious book, one of the world’s leading political scientists working on China demonstrates how Western views of China are flawed because the long tradition of Western scholarship studying China views China from the Western philosophical and intellectual perspective ...
China's Environmental Foreign Relations
1st Edition
By Heidi Wang-Kaeding
September 26, 2022
Over recent decades, China has moved from being a follower towards taking on a leadership role in global environmental governance. This book discusses this important development. It examines the key role of Chinese interest groups, showing how through various domestic dynamics they have influenced ...
China's Provinces and the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Dominik Mierzejewski
September 26, 2022
This book discusses the Belt and Road Initiative at the provincial level in China. It analyses the evolution of the role of local governments in Chinese foreign policy since the opening of China’s economy in 1978, showing how the provinces initially competed with each other, and how the central ...
Designing Emergency Management: China’s Post-SARS Experience, 2003-2012
1st Edition
By Wee-Kiat Lim
May 30, 2022
This book looks at the then-nascent emergency management sector in China, specifically the 2003–2012 period, that arose from the 2003 SARS crisis and subsequently set the stage for its responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. Covering not only the amended and new laws and regulations at the national ...
Governing Environmental Conflicts in China
1st Edition
By Yanwei Li
September 30, 2021
Environmental conflicts are the source of many large-scale popular protests in China, with some protests substantially endangering social order. Such protests have often prompted severe counter measures by both national and local government, but have often then gone on to result in compromises ...