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.
Education Reform in China: Changing concepts, contexts and practices
1st Edition
Edited
By Janette Ryan
October 25, 2013
Over the past decade there has been radical reform at all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations. Changes have been made to pedagogy and teacher professional learning and also to the curriculum - both at the basic education level...
HIV/AIDS in China - The Economic and Social Determinants
1st Edition
By Dylan Sutherland, Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
October 25, 2013
South and East Asia may well become the epicentres of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic. More than three-quarters of a million people are now estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS in China. In 2009, AIDS had already become the leading cause of death by infectious disease. Yet, even despite China’s recent...
Looking for Work in Post-Socialist China: Governance, Active Job Seekers and the New Chinese Labour Market
1st Edition
By Feng Xu
October 03, 2013
Unemployment is one of the most politically explosive issues in China and has gained further prominence as a result of the present global financial crisis. The novelty, urgency, and complexity of Chinese unemployment have compelled the government to experiment with policy initiatives that originate...
China's Higher Education Reform and Internationalisation
1st Edition
Edited
By Janette Ryan
September 20, 2013
Despite radical and fundamental reform of the Chinese higher education system, very little is known about this outside China. The past decade has seen radical reform of all levels of China’s education system as it attempts to meet changing economic and social needs and aspirations: this has ...
Trade Unions in China: The Challenge of Labour Unrest
1st Edition
By Tim Pringle
September 20, 2013
The transition from a command economy to a capitalist market economy has entirely altered the industrial landscape in which Chinese trade unions have to operate. This book focuses on how the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) is reforming under current conditions and demonstrates that ...
Xinjiang and China's Rise in Central Asia - A History
1st Edition
By Michael E. Clarke
September 20, 2013
The recent conflict between indigenous Uyghurs and Han Chinese demonstrates that Xinjiang is a major trouble spot for China, with Uyghur demands for increased autonomy, and where Beijing’s policy is to more firmly integrate the province within China. This book provides an account of how China’s ...
Politics in China since 1949: Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule
1st Edition
By Robert Weatherley
August 07, 2013
Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political ...
Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization: A Comparative Analysis
1st Edition
By Ming Sing
June 11, 2013
This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process ...
China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving: Raising Little Suns in Xiamen
1st Edition
By Esther Goh
June 07, 2013
This book explores the effects of China’s one child policy on modern Chinese families. It is widely thought that such a policy has contributed to the creation of a generation of little emperors or little suns spoiled by their parents and by the grandparents who have been recruited to care for the ...
Consumer-Citizens of China: The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China
1st Edition
By Kelly Tian, Lily Dong
June 07, 2013
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. This ...
The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution: The Political Impact of Market
1st Edition
By Lance Gore
April 11, 2013
The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free ...
China's Changing Workplace: Dynamism, diversity and disparity
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Sheldon, Sunghoon Kim, Yiqiong Li, Malcolm Warner
March 05, 2013
This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China’s workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors’ extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of ...