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.
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 ...
China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society: Changing paradigms of farming
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Jingzhong Ye
August 14, 2018
China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture,&...
Reconfiguring Class, Gender, Ethnicity and Ethics in Chinese Internet Culture
1st Edition
By Haomin Gong, Xin Yang
August 14, 2018
New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to ...
Space, Politics, and Cultural Representation in Modern China: Cartographies of Revolution
1st Edition
By Enhua Zhang
August 14, 2018
Regarding revolution as a spatial practice, this book explores modes of spatial construction in modern China through a panoramic overview of major Chinese revolutionary events and nuanced analysis of cultural representations. Examining the relationship between revolution, space, and culture in ...
The Chinese Family Today
1st Edition
Edited
By Anqi XU, John DeFrain, Wenrong LIU
August 14, 2018
The Chinese economy is undergoing dramatic changes and the world is watching and changing along with it. The Chinese family is also changing in many ways in response to the economic transformation that is moving the world’s most populous nation from an agrarian economy to a global superpower. This ...
The Geopolitics of Red Oil: Constructing the China threat through energy security
1st Edition
By Andrew Stephen Campion
August 14, 2018
Energy security has emerged as one of the most important contemporary geopolitical issues. Access to reliable, cheap energy has become essential to the functioning of modern economies but the uneven distribution of energy supplies has led to perceptions of significant Western vulnerability. At the ...
Social Policy and Migration in China
1st Edition
By Lida Fan
August 09, 2018
This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fan’s discussion examines migration regulations, household registration, social welfare and insurance, employment, education, housing, medical care and ...
State-Market Interactions in China's Reform Era: Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry
1st Edition
By Junmin Wang
August 09, 2018
China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China’s tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully ...
Television Drama in Contemporary China: Political, social and cultural phenomena
1st Edition
By Shenshen Cai
August 09, 2018
Due to high audience numbers and the significant influence upon the opinions and values of viewers, the political leadership in China attributes great importance to the impact of television dramas. Many successful TV serials have served as useful conduits to disseminate official rhetoric and ...
China's Unruly Journalists: How Committed Professionals are Changing the People’s Republic
1st Edition
By Jonathan Hassid
June 28, 2018
Despite operating in one of the most tightly controlled media environments in the world, Chinese journalists sometimes take extraordinary risks, braving the perils of job loss or imprisonment to report sensitive stories. As a result, a group of journalists stands at the forefront of some of China’s...
China’s Strategic Priorities
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan H. Ping, Brett McCormick
June 28, 2018
The People’s Republic of China is the world’s most populous state and largest consumer of energy, having demonstrated momentous progress on an unprecedented scale. This global power has increasingly shaped international relations as a result of its population size, economic development and ...