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.
Gender and Employment in Rural China
1st Edition
By Jing Song
January 23, 2019
With China’s rapid advancements in urbanization and industrialization, there has been significant labor movement away from agriculture in the rural regions. Using four village case studies, Song examines how this restructuring process affects the rural population. Much of her research is centered ...
Political Mobility of Chinese Regional Leaders: Performance, Preference, Promotion
1st Edition
By Liang Qiao
January 23, 2019
A monarch is usually born, a member of parliament or a president is usually elected, but a regional leader in China is usually orchestrated to replace his or her predecessor through an opaque process and for reasons not normally made public. The professional trajectories of Chinese regional leaders...
China's Rise and the Chinese Overseas
1st Edition
Edited
By Bernard Wong, Chee-Beng TAN
January 17, 2019
Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world. Traditionally, the study of immigrant ...
China's Soviet Dream: Propaganda, Culture, and Popular Imagination
1st Edition
By Yan Li
January 17, 2019
This book examines the introduction of Soviet socialist culture in the People’s Republic of China, with a focus on the period of Sino-Soviet friendship in the 1950s. The vast state initiative to transplant Soviet culture into Chinese soil has conventionally been dismissed as a tool of propaganda ...
Civil Society in China and Taiwan: Agency, Class and Boundaries
1st Edition
By Taru Salmenkari
January 17, 2019
The concept of 'civil society' has often been used as a devise for differentiating China from other cultures. Though sometimes portrayed as a growing phenomenon, Chinese civil society is frequently said to be non-existent. Definitional deficiencies have, therefore, led to both a simplification and ...
Civilising Citizens in Post-Mao China: Understanding the Rhetoric of Suzhi
1st Edition
By Delia Lin
January 17, 2019
Political discourse in contemporary China is intimately linked to the patriotic reverie of restoring China as a great civilisation, a dream of reformers since the beginning of the twentieth century. The concept and use of suzhi – a term that denotes the idea of cultivating a ‘quality’ citizenship –...
Popular Politics and the Quest for Justice in Contemporary China
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Brandtstädter, Hans Steinmüller
January 17, 2019
The rise of popular politics is among one the most significant social and political developments the People’s Republic of China has witnessed in the post-Mao era. People from all walks of life have responded to rising inequalities and the privatization of collective goods with a new quest for ...
Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China
1st Edition
Edited
By Mingjun Zhang, Xinye Wu
January 17, 2019
The recent rise in reported public security issues in China is one of the most repeated concerns amongst the Chinese authorities. During the past 30 years of reform in China, stability maintenance as a governance strategy has in fact laid a solid foundation for the overall development and growth of...
The Politics of Memory in Sinophone Cinemas and Image Culture: Altering Archives
1st Edition
Edited
By Peng Hsiao-yen, Ella Raidel
January 17, 2019
Cinema archives memories, conserves the past, and rewrites histories. As much as the Sinophone embodies differences, contemporary Sinophone cinemas in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the People’s Republic of China invest various images of contested politics in order to assert different histories and ...
China's Changing Economy: Trends, Impacts and the Future
1st Edition
Edited
By Curtis Andressen
January 10, 2019
One of the most dramatic events in the global economy over the past few decades has been the rise of China as a global economic power. From humble beginnings in the late 1970s, the policy shift in China from a planned to market economy has led to economic growth of tremendous speed. This book ...
Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Giorgio Strafella
January 10, 2019
This book explores intellectual discourse in reform era China by analysing the so-called “debate on the spirit of the Humanities”, which occurred in the years 1993-95, and which is recognised by scholars as one of the most interesting, influential and important debates of the 1990s. This debate, in...
State Propaganda in China’s Entertainment Industry
1st Edition
By Shenshen Cai
January 10, 2019
Most current research on the evolution of China’s propaganda discourse only touches upon recent variations of official propaganda rhetoric grounded in popular media. Here, the research is extended by tapping into the most recently released popular cultural media narratives such as online ...