Routledge Contemporary China Series
About the Book Series
The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East, on all aspects of contemporary China.
Chinese Entrepreneurs Between Power and Dependency: Marginal Elites
1st Edition
By Jasmine Wang
October 02, 2026
This book examines the important elite group of newly rich private entrepreneurs who have contributed to lifting China from relative backwardness to an economic giant over the last four decades. Their rise coincides with the Chinese Communist Party's "reform and opening up" policy initiated by Deng...
Negative Incentives and Disciplinary Action in China’s Food Safety Regulation
1st Edition
By Jia Liu
September 15, 2026
This book offers a systematic and original analysis of how disciplinary pressure shapes food safety regulation in China. Focusing on punishment as a regulatory incentive, the book shows that disciplinary action is driven not only by regulatory failure, but also by public opinion, institutional ...
China’s “Autonomous” Cities: The Constitution and Reconstruction of Hong Kong and Macau
1st Edition
By Po Jen Yap, Han Zhu, Shiling Xiao
September 07, 2026
This book explores the constitutional evolution of Hong Kong and Macau as Beijing asserts "comprehensive jurisdiction" over both Special Administrative Regions, compelling them to align with the national agenda of security, patriotic education, and Mainland integration. The book delivers a ...
A History of Chinese Orchestras in Greater China
1st Edition
By Ming-yen Lee
June 30, 2026
This book traces the evolution of Chinese orchestra from its inception in 1919 to the present day, focusing on its foundation and development in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Ming-yen Lee examines the trajectories of the three earliest professional orchestras established after 1949—the ...
Tianxia and Its Discontents: Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order
1st Edition
By Joyce C. H. Liu
June 10, 2026
Across imperial histories and contemporary digital infrastructures, Tianxia and Its Discontents challenges the enduring assumption that the Chinese notion of tianxia—“all under heaven”—offers a benign or alternative vision of world order.It argues instead that Tianxia operates as a colonial ...
Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories
1st Edition
By Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
May 21, 2026
This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC. By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’ physical/physiological condition, as represented ...
Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora Fiction
1st Edition
By Sheng-mei Ma
May 21, 2026
The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora. It focuses or ‘zooms in’ on well-known exceptional Chinese TV series such as Reset and The Bad Kids and ‘zooms-out’ ...
Exploring China's Religious Sites: Digital and Spatial Insights
1st Edition
By Zhaohui Hong
May 21, 2026
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004. Drawing from Chinese government datasets ...
Performance Across Chinese Borders
1st Edition
By Wei Zhang
May 21, 2026
This book examines the dynamic intermingling of Asian performance of theatre and dance across the borders of the ancient Silk Road, which connected China with cultures and countries throughout Asia, and beyond. Revealing the dynamic interweaving of cultures between China and its neighbors from the ...
The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas: Worrying about the Audience in Postsocialist China
1st Edition
By How Wee Ng
January 22, 2026
This book offers a compelling look at how television censorship in China works not just as top-down control but as interactions between state, industry, and viewers. As a historical study of the discourse on Chinese television censorship, it analyses debates around the censorship of popular ...
City Branding in Chinese Megacity Regions: Against the Background of Ecological Modernization
1st Edition
By Haiyan Lu
December 26, 2025
This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples. Focusing on city branding efforts led by local governments, it delves into practices driven by vertical inspiration, ...
Modernization in Eastern Tibet: Leviathan the Forager
1st Edition
By Su Hu
December 26, 2025
Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality. Including cases centred on ...