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 Foreign Trade Policy: The New Constituencies
1st Edition
Edited
By Ka Zeng
May 26, 2009
China’s rise as a major trading power has prompted debate about the nature of that country’s involvement in the liberal international economic order. China’s Foreign Trade Policy sheds light on this complex question by examining the changing domestic forces shaping China’s foreign trade relations....
Globalization and the Chinese City
1st Edition
Edited
By Fulong Wu
May 14, 2009
Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed examination of the transformation of the built environment. A range of urban development processes ...
New Crime in China: Public Order and Human Rights
1st Edition
By Ronald Keith, Zhiqiu Lin
May 14, 2009
Examining the crimes that have recently been of the greatest concern in China, the authors assess the imbalance between public order and human rights in the way the Chinese legal system deals with crime. The issue of crime is of particular importance, both because current social upheaval ...
Non-Governmental Organizations in Contemporary China: Paving the Way to Civil Society?
1st Edition
By Qiusha Ma
April 29, 2009
Based on documentary materials including interviews with key players in China, this book charts the development of non-governmental and non-profit organizations in China from the late 1970s to the present day. It recounts how in the aftermath of the 1978 reforms that created a market economy ...
Sex, Science and Morality in China
1st Edition
By Joanna McMillan
April 29, 2009
After decades of near silence on the matter, sex is being talked about in China. But what is being said? Who is allowed to speak? And whose purposes are being served? This ground-breaking book takes a critical look at how sex in China is thought and talked about. Drawing on the work of the country...
China and Africa: Engagement and Compromise
1st Edition
By Ian Taylor
April 03, 2009
With China’s rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. Sino-African relations are set to become an increasingly significant feature of world politics as China’s hunger for energy resources grows and many ...
China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
1st Edition
Edited
By Suisheng Zhao
February 02, 2009
China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower in the post-Cold War World. Now that China is rising as an economic, political, and military power and has expanded its diplomatic ...
Hong Kong, China: Learning to belong to a nation
1st Edition
By Gordon Mathews, Eric Ma, Tai-Lok Lui
July 20, 2008
The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150 years as a British colony, the concept of national identity and what it means to "belong to a nation" is a matter of great tension and contestation in Hong ...
Nationalism, Democracy and National Integration in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Leong H. Liew, Shaoguang Wang
December 16, 2003
This book examines the changing role of nationalism in China in the light of the immense political and economic changes there during the 1990s. It analyses recent debates between the nationalists (New Left) and liberals in China and examines the roles played by state-sponsored and populist ...