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.
Intangible Cultural Heritage in Contemporary China: The participation of local communities
1st Edition
Edited
By Khun Eng Kuah, Zhaohui Liu
May 11, 2018
This edited book examines the significance of intangible cultural heritage to local communities and the state in Hong Kong and China. Through ethnographic studies, the various chapters in this edited book argue for the role of the local community in the creation and conservation of the intangible ...
The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Sustaining Decentralized Protest
1st Edition
By Yongshun Cai
April 25, 2018
The Occupy movement in Hong Kong was sustained for about 80 days because of government tolerance, the presence of determined participants, and a weak leadership. The government tolerated the occupation because its initial use of force, in particular teargas, was counterproductive and provoked ...
Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State
1st Edition
Edited
By Hans Steinmüller, Susanne Brandtstädter
April 16, 2018
Unprecedented social change in China has intensified the contradictions faced by ordinary people. In everyday life, people find themselves caught between official and popular discourses, encounter radically different representations of China's past and its future, and draw on widely diverse moral ...
The Politics of Controlling Organized Crime in Greater China
1st Edition
By Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo
April 16, 2018
In China, the central government has the political will to control organized crime, which is seen as a national security threat. The crux of the problem is how to control local governments that have demonstrated lax enforcement without sufficient regulation from the provincial governments. The ...
Chinese Muslims and the Global Ummah: Islamic Revival and Ethnic Identity Among the Hui of Qinghai Province
1st Edition
By Alexander Stewart
March 15, 2018
The global spread of Islamic movements and the ascendance of a Chinese state that limits religious freedom have aroused anxieties about integrating Islam and protecting religious freedom around the world. Focusing on violent movements like the so-called Islamic State and Uygur separatists in China’...
Parenting, Education, and Social Mobility in Rural China: Cultivating dragons and phoenixes
1st Edition
By Peggy A. Kong
February 12, 2018
Like many countries around the world, China has been implementing policies aimed at improving parent-school relationships. However, unlike many developed countries, the historical context of family-school relationships has been limited and parents typically do not participate in the school context....
Party Hegemony and Entrepreneurial Power in China: Institutional Change in the Film and Music Industries
1st Edition
By Elena Meyer-Clement
February 05, 2018
Economic liberalisation processes and the rapid development of the private sector are widely visible signs of over thirty years of reform policies in the People’s Republic of China. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has managed to preserve the basic political institutions of the ...
China's Approach to Central Asia: The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
1st Edition
By Weiqing Song
January 12, 2018
This book examines, comprehensively, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the regional organisation which consists of China, Russia and most of the Central Asian countries. It charts the development of the Organisation from the establishment of its precursor, the Shanghai Five, in 1996, through ...
China's Socialist Rule of Law Reforms Under Xi Jinping
1st Edition
Edited
By John Garrick, Yan Chang Bennett
January 12, 2018
Under the direction of the Communist Party of China (CPC), key legal challenges have been identified which will shape the modernization of China’s legal and administrative institutions. An increasingly complex set of legal actors now seek to influence this development, including securities ...
Inside Xinjiang: Space, Place and Power in China's Muslim Far Northwest
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Hayes, Michael Clarke
January 12, 2018
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of ...
Teacher Management in China: The Transformation of Educational Systems
1st Edition
By Eva Huang, John Benson, Ying Zhu
January 12, 2018
Education has long been highly valued in China, and continues to be highly valued, both by the state, which appreciates the value of education for maintaining China's economic rise, and by parents, who, affected by the One Child Policy, devote a large proportion of their incomes to their one ...
Chinese Environmental Aesthetics: Wangheng Chen, Wuhan University, China, translated by Feng Su, Hunan Normal University, China
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Cipriani
January 03, 2018
China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems. This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty, and discusses how these ideas can be applied in...