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.
China's Energy Security: A Multidimensional Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Romano, Jean-Francois Meglio
December 22, 2017
A secure supply of energy is essential for all nations, to sustain their economy, and indeed their very survival. This subject is especially important in the case of China, as China’s booming economy and consequent demand for energy is affecting the whole world, and in turn potentially driving ...
Assessing the Balance of Power in Central-Local Relations in China
1st Edition
Edited
By John Donaldson
December 21, 2017
How do we understand the evolution of central-local relations in China during the reform period? This book addresses this question by focusing on eight separate issues in which the central-local relationship has been especially salient – government finance, investment control, regional development,...
Chinese Migration and Economic Relations with Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Sanfilippo, Agnieszka Weinar
December 21, 2017
This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and the host countries. It considers migration, trade, the flow of capital, and foreign direct investment, includes both skilled and unskilled migrants, and ...
Economy Hotels in China: A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
1st Edition
By Songshan Sam Huang, Xuhua Michael Sun
October 26, 2017
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics ...
The Uyghur Lobby: Global Networks, Coalitions and Strategies of the World Uyghur Congress
1st Edition
By Yu-Wen Chen
October 26, 2017
An upsurge in violence between Uyghur and Han in China’s far western region of Xinjiang has gained increased media and academic attention in recent years as was evidenced in the July 2009 riots. Numbering over eight million, the Uyghur are China’s fifth-largest minority nationality, and their ...
China and Global Trade Governance: China's First Decade in the World Trade Organization
1st Edition
Edited
By Ka Zeng, Wei Liang
October 23, 2017
China's historic accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 not only represents an important milestone in the country’s transition to a market economy and integration into the global economy, but is also among the most important events in the history of the WTO and the ...
Forecasting China's Future: Dominance or Collapse?
1st Edition
By Roger Irvine
October 23, 2017
China’s future development is likely to have a huge impact on twenty-first century global outcomes. It is therefore surprising that, thus far, so little attention has been given to comparing and evaluating expert forecasts of China’s future in the post-Mao era. This book presents an illuminating ...
Queer Sinophone Cultures
1st Edition
Edited
By Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich
October 23, 2017
The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender. Bringing ...
Social Entrepreneurship in the Greater China Region: Policy and Cases
1st Edition
Edited
By Yanto Chandra, Linda Wong
October 13, 2017
This book offers the first exploration into the development of social enterprises in the Greater China region, consisting of Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Mainland China. By drawing on the research and experience of over a dozen scholars and practitioners from across the area, it offers a picture of...
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man
1st Edition
By Xiaodong Lin
October 12, 2017
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and ...
International Regimes in China: Domestic Implementation of the International Fisheries Agreements
1st Edition
By Gianluca Ferraro
October 12, 2017
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, more than 80% of world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion. Although several international agreements have promoted more responsible fisheries, coastal states have ...
State-Led Privatization in China: The Politics of Economic Reform
1st Edition
By Jin Zeng
October 12, 2017
Large-scale privatization did not emerge spontaneously in China in the late 1990s. Rather, the Chinese state led and carefully “planned” ownership transformation with timetables and measurable privatization quotas, not for the purpose of extracting the state from the economy, but in order to ...