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.
How Australia is Studied in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hu, Diane Hu
July 31, 2025
China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. However, not much is known about this phenomenon, including its emergence, rationale, interests, influences, and the implications for strategic Australia-China engagement in a region of increasing challenge and uncertainty...
China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam: The Political Theodicy of Development
1st Edition
By Yuen-ching Bellette Lee
June 13, 2025
This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state’s use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era. Presenting observations from fieldwork collected after the dam’s completion, it reveals communities who not ...
Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi
1st Edition
By Anson Au
May 06, 2025
Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization investigates the impact of digital media on the traditional Chinese model of social interaction, trust-building, and social capital, known as guanxi. Guanxi is a system of cultural and psychological rules of networking that orders every ...
Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor C. M. Chan, Yew-Foong Hui, Desmond Hui, Kazem Vafadari
April 14, 2025
This book explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative through promoting a non-Western-centred geopolitical narrative is affecting the conservation and management of Belt and Road heritage sites. Considering the dynamics between academics, heritage professionals, and government officials, the ...
The Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Theodor Tudoroiu
April 14, 2025
This book argues that China’s Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order. It contends that China’s international approach has two personas – an aggressive one, ...
Heritage, Homemaking, and Identity Formation in Migrant Workers: An Ethnographic Study of Yi Migrants in Shenzhen
1st Edition
By Junmin Liu
April 10, 2025
Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging. This book uncovers the intricate relationship between heritage and homemaking, examining how Yi migrants engage in their ...
Performance Across Chinese Borders
1st Edition
By Wei Zhang
December 31, 2024
This book examines the dynamic intermingling of Asian performance of theatre and dance across the borders of the ancient Silk Road, which connected China with cultures and countries throughout Asia, and beyond. Revealing the dynamic interweaving of cultures between China and its neighbors from the ...
Politics of Economic Inequality in China: Unbalanced Responsiveness
1st Edition
By Shuai Jin
December 18, 2024
This book applies a novel theory of ‘unbalanced responsiveness’ to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship between authoritarian regimes and their citizens. The book highlights how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has responded to dissatisfaction over ...
Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics
1st Edition
By Thomas Heberer
December 18, 2024
This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the Chinese state sees that modernisation and modernity encompass not only economic and ...
Greater China's Olympic Medal Haul: Beyond Sports Excellence
1st Edition
By Marcus P. Chu
November 28, 2024
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China – China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong – competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics. By winning 263 gold medals, 199 silver, and 173 bronze, China became a global sports superpower. Taiwan and Hong Kong pocketed 7 gold medals, ...
Public Policy and Health Care in China: The Case of Public Insurance
1st Edition
By Peter Nan-shong Lee
November 28, 2024
This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field investigations, residents’ surveys and analyses by local policy experts and practitioners it provides a comparative analysis of the marketization of public ...
Social Enterprise in China: State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness
1st Edition
By Echo Lei Wang
November 28, 2024
Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social ...