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.
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 ...
The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations
1st Edition
By Canglong Wang
November 28, 2024
This book explores the relationship between Confucianism and citizenship and the rise of Confucian citizens in contemporary China. Combining theoretical and empirical approaches to the topic, the book constructs new frameworks to examine the nuances and complexities of Confucianism and citizenship,...
Inside the Expressive Culture of Chinese Women's Mosques: ‘This Turmoil of the Soul’
1st Edition
By Maria Jaschok
November 06, 2024
This book presents a multi-voice narrative of the history and significance of current contestations over the increasing prominence of expressive piety in Hui Muslim women’s mosques in central China. By drawing on a ‘Song Book’ of chants, collected from the tradition of women’s mosques, as ...
Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories
1st Edition
By Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
October 14, 2024
This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC. By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’ physical/physiological condition, as represented ...
Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics: A Tale of Two Chinese Cities’ Participatory Budgeting Experiences
1st Edition
By Su Yun Woo
October 09, 2024
Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level. Despite the tightening of civil society under Xi there are still some opportunities for the Chinese people to ...
Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Teo
October 09, 2024
This book examines the theme of human–animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene. Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankind’s traditional ...
Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora Fiction
1st Edition
By Sheng-mei Ma
September 24, 2024
The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora. It focuses or “zooms in” on well-known exceptional Chinese TV series such as Reset and The Bad Kids and “zooms-out” ...
Exploring China's Religious Sites: Digital and Spatial Insights
1st Edition
By Zhaohui Hong
September 24, 2024
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004. Drawing from Chinese government datasets ...