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.
Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China: Agricultural Processing in Sichuan
1st Edition
By Susanne Lingohr-Wolf
February 29, 2016
Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of rural household ...
Innovation in China: The Chinese Software Industry
1st Edition
By Shang-Ling Jui
January 20, 2016
A key question for China, which has for some time been a leading global manufacturing base, is whether China can progress from being a traditional centre of manufacturing to becoming a centre for innovation. In this book, Shang-Ling Jui focuses on China’s software industry and examines the complete...
Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism
1st Edition
Edited
By Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster
December 07, 2015
After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’...
Disruptive Innovation in Chinese and Indian Businesses: The Strategic Implications for Local Entrepreneurs and Global Incumbents
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Ping Li
September 08, 2015
With the rapid development of China and India as new economic powers in global competition, an obvious question is whether these emerging economies are great opportunities or threats. Whilst answers are bound to differ depending on one’s perspective, it is increasingly clear that more local firms, ...
Chinese Middle Classes: Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and China
1st Edition
Edited
By Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao
July 31, 2015
The formation and characteristics of a nation’s middle class are shaped by historical context and the developmental path that has been followed. However, can the same be said of the ethnic Chinese middle classes in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, and Macao? Given the divergent political and economic ...
Islam and China's Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road
1st Edition
By Wai-Yip Ho
July 31, 2015
Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and ...
Paying for Progress in China: Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Vivienne Shue, Christine Wong
July 31, 2015
China’s stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country’s ‘haves’ and its ‘have-nots’. While people living in some parts of the country have enjoyed dramatically improved conditions of life, those in other districts and ...
Christian Values in Communist China
1st Edition
By Gerda Wielander
May 21, 2015
This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China, Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the new post-socialist Chinese outlook. It shows how although Christianity is viewed in China as a foreign religion, promoted by Christian missionaries...
Mobility, Migration and the Chinese Scientific Research System
1st Edition
By Koen Jonkers
April 09, 2015
China’s rise is having a large impact on the global science system. The internalisation of this system in the past two decades would not have been possible without the outbound and especially the return flows of overseas Chinese scientists. This book explores their impact combining macro-level ...
China's Homeless Generation: Voices from the veterans of the Chinese Civil War, 1940s-1990s
1st Edition
By Joshua Fan
February 27, 2015
China's Homeless Generation is a study of nearly two million Chinese who were displaced from home in Mainland China to the island of Taiwan. A result of the Chinese civil war between the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), this massive migration began around 1948 ...
China-Taiwan Relations in a Global Context: Taiwan's Foreign Policy and Relations
1st Edition
Edited
By C.X. George Wei
February 27, 2015
This book traces the development of Taiwan’s relations with its diplomatic partners and its policy towards the political opponents of its political opponent - mainland China. Paying particular attention to the powers that could exercise great influence in the future of East Asia, China-Taiwan ...
Chinese Globalization: A Profile of People-Based Global Connections in China
1st Edition
By Jiaming Sun, Scott Lancaster
February 27, 2015
This book examines the explicit effects of global connectivity on local culture and society in post-reform mainland China. It focuses on individual level globalization in China and how global socialization impacts local residents’ behaviors, lifestyle, value orientation and the consequence of ...