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.
Law and Policy for China's Market Socialism
1st Edition
Edited
By John Garrick
February 27, 2015
This edited volume presents fresh empirical research on the emerging outcomes of China’s law reforms. The chapters examine China’s ‘going out’ policy by addressing the ways in which the underpinning legal reforms enable China to pursue its core interests and broad international responsibilities as ...
Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity
1st Edition
By Pitman B. Potter
February 27, 2015
This book examines the Chinese government’s policies and practices for relations with the Inner Periphery areas of Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan focusing on themes of political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development...
Mapping Media in China: Region, Province, Locality
1st Edition
Edited
By Wanning Sun, Jenny Chio
February 27, 2015
Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the ‘national’ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. China’s media has played a crucial role in shaping and directing the country’s social and cultural changes, and ...
Neoliberalism and Culture in China and Hong Kong: The Countdown of Time
1st Edition
By Hai Ren
February 27, 2015
This book examines the period leading up to the Hong Kong handover in 1997 - the 'countdown of time', and by using iconic cultural symbols such as the countdown clock, the Hong Kong Museum exhibitions and cultural heritage sites, argues that China has undergone a transition to neoliberal state, in ...
Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism
1st Edition
By Ming Dong Gu
February 27, 2015
Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and ...
The Chinese Corporatist State: Adaption, Survival and Resistance
1st Edition
Edited
By Jennifer Y.J. Hsu, Reza Hasmath
February 27, 2015
The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of social problems from health to the environment...
The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture
1st Edition
By Colin Hawes
February 27, 2015
In recent years, Chinese policymakers and corporate leaders have focused significant attention on the concept of corporate culture. This book will reveal the political, social and economic factors behind the enormous current interest in corporate culture in China and provide a wide range of case ...
The Middle Class in Neoliberal China: Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces
1st Edition
By Hai Ren
February 27, 2015
Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the ...
The Shanghai Alleyway House: A Vanishing Urban Vernacular
1st Edition
By Gregory Bracken
September 11, 2014
As a nineteenth-century commercial development, the alleyway house was a hybrid of the traditional Chinese courtyard house and the Western terraced one. Unique to Shanghai, the alleyway house was a space where the blurring of the boundaries of public and private life created a vibrant social ...
China's New Underclass: Paid Domestic Labour
1st Edition
By Xinying Hu
August 12, 2014
This book examines the implications of China’s economic reforms for domestic work and domestic workers. The author examines the factors that give rise to paid domestic work in a socialist economy, and goes on to look at the need for social protection of domestic workers within cities in ...
Sars: Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu
August 12, 2014
SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high ...
Law and Fair Work in China
1st Edition
By Sean Cooney, Sarah Biddulph, Ying Zhu
July 03, 2014
China’s economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working ...