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.
In Search of China's Development Model: Beyond the Beijing Consensus
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Philip Hsu, Yu-Shan Wu, Suisheng Zhao
March 13, 2014
This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’s Development Model (CDM) is examined with a view to answering a central question: given China’s peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed ...
Law, Wealth and Power in China: Commercial Law Reforms in Context
1st Edition
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By John Garrick
March 13, 2014
This book examines the law reforms of contemporary China in light of the Party-state’s ideological transformation and the political economy that shapes these reforms. This involves analysing three interrelated domains: law reform, power and wealth. The contributors to this volume employ a variety ...
Sino-Latin American Economic Relations
1st Edition
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By K.C. Fung, Alicia Garcia Herrero
March 13, 2014
This book analyses the economic and policy relationships between China and Latin America. One of the major economic developments in the world in the 21st century is the rise of Asia, particularly the rise of China. How does the rise of China affect the trade and investment of Latin American ...
Religion in Contemporary China: Revitalization and Innovation
1st Edition
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By Adam Yuet Chau
March 09, 2014
Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges ...
China, the West and the Myth of New Public Management: Neoliberalism and its Discontents
1st Edition
By Paolo Urio
March 07, 2014
In the West, innovations in new public management (NPM) have been regarded as part of the neoliberal project, whilst in China, these reforms have emerged from a very different economic and social landscape. Despite these differences however, similar measures to those introduced in the West have ...
Political Change in Macao
1st Edition
By Shiu-Hing Lo
January 16, 2014
Since the handover to the People's Republic of China in 1999 Macao has undergone a multi-faceted transformation marked by persistent bureaucratic reforms, changing patterns and modes of political participation, internationalization and modernization, and competition and coordination with Macao’s ...
Leisure and Power in Urban China: Everyday life in a Chinese city
1st Edition
By Unn Målfrid Rolandsen
January 03, 2014
Leisure and Power in Urban China is the first comprehensive study of leisure activities in a medium size Chinese city. Hitherto, studies of Chinese leisure have focused on holidays, festivals and tourism. This, however, is a study of the kinds of leisure that take place on regular workdays in a ...
Mao’s China and the Sino-Soviet Split: Ideological Dilemma
1st Edition
By Mingjiang Li
January 03, 2014
The Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s was one of the most significant events of the Cold War. Why did the Sino-Soviet alliance, hailed by its creators as "unbreakable", "eternal", and as representing "brotherly solidarity", break up? Why did their relations eventually evolve into open hostility and ...
International Human Resource Management in Chinese Multinationals
1st Edition
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By Jie Shen, Vincent Edwards
November 08, 2013
The authors explore the degree to which Chinese multinationals have a distinctive 'Chinese' approach to human resource management, in the same way as large Japanese companies are widely regarded as having a special Japanese approach. Based on extensive original research in the subsidiaries of ...
Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices
1st Edition
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By Janette Ryan
October 25, 2013
Over the past decade there has been radical reform at all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations. Changes have been made to pedagogy and teacher professional learning and also to the curriculum - both at the basic education level...
HIV/AIDS in China - The Economic and Social Determinants
1st Edition
By Dylan Sutherland, Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
October 25, 2013
South and East Asia may well become the epicentres of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. More than three-quarters of a million people are now estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in China. In 2009, AIDS had already become the leading cause of death by infectious disease. Yet, even despite China’s recent...
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market
1st Edition
By Feng Xu
October 03, 2013
Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...