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.
Intellectual Property Rights in China: Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection
1st Edition
By Gordon C.K Cheung
June 22, 2011
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) infringement is so rampant in China that counterfeit goods - from general household merchandise, garments and media consumables to specialist products including pharmaceutical products and super computer chips - can be found in roadside stalls, markets, shops, ...
Tourism and Tibetan Culture in Transition: A Place called Shangrila
1st Edition
By Ashild Kolas
May 13, 2011
This book explores the relationship between tourism, culture and ethnic identity in Tibet in , focusing in particular on Shangrila, a Tibetan region in Southwest China, to show how local ‘Tibetan culture’ is reconstructed as a marketable commodity for tourists. It analyses the socio-economic ...
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture: Cannibalizations of the Canon
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow
March 17, 2011
Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and ...
Developing China: Land, Politics and Social Conditions
1st Edition
By George C.S. Lin
March 15, 2011
In the first systematic documentation of the pattern and processes of land development taking place in China in the last two decades George C.S Lin advocates a fresh and innovative approach that goes beyond the privatization debate to probe directly into the social and political origins of land ...
China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century
1st Edition
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By Colin Mackerras, Michael Clarke
March 14, 2011
Central Asia and Xinjiang – the far north-western province of China – are of increasing international importance. The United States, having established military bases in Central Asia after September 2001, has now become a force in what was previously predominantly a Russian sphere of influence; ...
China Turns to Multilateralism: Foreign Policy and Regional Security
1st Edition
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By Guoguang Wu
March 03, 2011
China’s recent rapid economic growth has drawn global attention to its foreign policy, which increasingly has had an impact on world politics. In contrast with China’s long-standing preference for bilateralism or unilateralism in foreign policy, recent decades have seen changes in the PRC’s ...
State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the people
1st Edition
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By Jonathan Schwartz, Shawn Shieh
September 10, 2010
This volume examines the shifting role of the state and social organizations (e.g. NGOs) in providing social services in contemporary China. A series of case studies identifies a dynamic whereby the state increasingly withdraws from social service provision with social organizations taking up the ...
China's Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism
1st Edition
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By Fulong Wu
July 14, 2010
With urbanism becoming the key driver of socio-economic change in China, this book provides much needed up-to-date material on Chinese urban development. Demonstrating how it transcends the centrally-planned model of economic growth, and assessing the extent to which it has gone beyond the common ...
China's State Enterprise Reform: From Marx to the Market
1st Edition
By John Hassard, Jackie Sheehan, Meixiang Zhou, Jane Terpstra-Tong, Jonathan Morris
July 14, 2010
Based on extensive original research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the current status of state enterprise reform in China. Chinese State Enterprise Reform considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's ...
US-China Relations: China policy on Capitol Hill
1st Edition
By Tao Xie
July 14, 2010
With China’s rapid ascendance to great power status, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of the most important international relationships in the world today. This book explores relations between the U.S. and China, focusing in particular on China policymaking in the U.S. Congress, which has...
China's Energy Geopolitics: The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia
1st Edition
By Thrassy N. Marketos
April 08, 2010
China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese energy policy has been a political and strategic rather than market-driven policy. This book focuses on the need of a ...
Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China: Institutional change and stability
1st Edition
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By Thomas Heberer, Gunter Schubert
December 11, 2009
Using in-depth case studies of a wide-range of political, social and economic reforms in contemporary China this volume sheds light on the significance and consequences of institutional change for stability of the political system in China. The contributors examine how reforms shape and ...