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.
Chinese Kinship: Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Brandtstädter, Gonçalo D Santos
October 11, 2011
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to the reverberations of larger socio-cultural and politico-economic processes in the formation of ...
Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation
1st Edition
By Jieyu Liu
October 11, 2011
Although it is generally believed in China that socialism raised women’s status and paid work liberated them from the shackles of patriarchy, the economic reforms of the last two decades of the twentieth century meant women workers were more vulnerable to losing their jobs than men. Unlike ...
Human Security and the Chinese State: Historical Transformations and the Modern Quest for Sovereignty
1st Edition
By Robert Bedeski
October 11, 2011
Offering a fresh and unique approach to surveying the historical transformations of the Chinese state, Human Security and the Chinese State focuses on human security in contrast with the twenty-first century obsession with national security. Building upon Hobbes' Leviathan, Robert Bedeski ...
Poverty and Development in China: Alternative Approaches to Poverty Assessment
1st Edition
By Caizhen Lu
October 05, 2011
China has made huge economic strides in recent decades but poverty is still a major issue on the agenda for rural China. Poverty and Development in China analyses how poverty is recognized and measured and how people in poverty are identified, literally asking: who is poor in China? Lu Caizhen’s ...
Cultural Heritage Management in China: Preserving the Cities of the Pearl River Delta
1st Edition
Edited
By Hilary Du Cros, Yok-shiu F. Lee
August 03, 2011
Cultural Heritage Management in China presents a thematic examination of the development of cultural heritage management (CHM) in an Asian context. It challenges assumptions of the primacy of community-sponsored action and heritage authority based on Western-derived ideals and practices that fit ...
Politics and Markets in Rural China
1st Edition
Edited
By Björn Alpermann
July 22, 2011
Thirty years have passed since the beginning of the reform era in China which saw important changes in agriculture and rural organizations, but it is clear that certain entrenched legacies from pre-reform China still linger on even after WTO accession, most importantly the key role played by state ...
The Chinese Party-State in the 21st Century: Adaptation and the Reinvention of Legitimacy
1st Edition
Edited
By Andre Laliberte, Marc Lanteigne
July 11, 2011
As the Chinese Communist Party continues to move away from socialism, it faces a growing number of challenges to the claim that it represents the sole legitimate governing body in China. In order to reaffirm itself as the most effective force for keeping the ...
Chinese Film Stars
1st Edition
Edited
By Mary Farquhar, Yingjin Zhang
July 08, 2011
This volume of original essays fills a significant research gap in Chinese film studies by offering an interdisciplinary, comparative examination of ethnic Chinese film stars from the silent period to the era of globalization. Whereas studies of stars and stardom have developed considerably in the ...
Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China
1st Edition
By Loretta Wing Wah Ho
July 01, 2011
This book contributes to a critical understanding of how Chinese same-sex identity in urban China is variously imagined; how it is transformed; and how it presents its resistances as China continues to open up to global power relations. Equally important, the book will 1) sharpen knowledge of China...
Reconciling State, Market and Society in China: The Long March Toward Prosperity
1st Edition
By Paolo Urio
July 01, 2011
Analysing post-Mao China is not an easy task, but it is essential in order to understand the rationale and scope of the reform process started by the Chinese leadership under the guidance of Deng Xiaoping at the end of the 1970s. Thirty years after the beginning of the reform process China has ...
The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang
1st Edition
By Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo
July 01, 2011
This volume unravels the politics surrounding behind China’s hegemonic project of heritage tourism development in Lijiang. It provides a compelling study of the dialectical relationships between global and domestic capital, the state, tourists and locals as they collude, collaborate and ...
China and Africa Development Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher M. Dent
June 22, 2011
China is among a number of large developing country or new powers on the ascendance in the international system, all of which are deepening their economic relations with Africa However, China is the largest and most powerful of this group. it has sought closer economic relationships with other ...