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.
Patron-Client Politics and Elections in Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Bruce Kam-kwan Kwong
March 05, 2013
The study of patron-client politics is new to the study of Hong Kong political science. This book examines whether patron-client relations are critical to the electoral victory of candidates; how the political elites cultivate support from clients in order to obtain more votes during local ...
Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective
1st Edition
By Fei Wu
February 13, 2013
Sociological and psychiatric studies on suicide based on Western ideas about human nature see suicide as social or individual disorder. Suicide in China, however, should be understood differently. By analyzing 30 cases, Wu Fei studies the dynamics of suicide in terms of family politics and local ...
China, Oil and Global Politics
1st Edition
By Philip Andrews-Speed, Roland Dannreuther
January 29, 2013
China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour. ...
Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System: Unravelling the Myth
1st Edition
By Victor Zheng
January 29, 2013
This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of ...
The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization: The Dragon Goes Global
1st Edition
By Hui Feng
November 01, 2012
Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s ...
Challenges for China's Development: An Enterprise Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By David Brown, Alasdair MacBean
September 10, 2012
The pace of reform for China’s enterprises of all kinds has quickened as they seek to cope with the challenges of self-determination in a rapidly evolving context of difficult social and welfare changes, and the realities of increasing global competition. This book explores these challenges from ...
China's Business Reforms: Institutional Challenges in a Globalised Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Russell Smyth, On Kit Tam, Malcolm Warner, Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu
September 10, 2012
China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest ...
Politics and Government in Hong Kong: Crisis under Chinese sovereignty
1st Edition
Edited
By Ming Sing
September 05, 2012
This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing in particular on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003. It argues that Hong Kong has been poorly governed since transferring to Chinese rule, and that public ...
Narrating China: Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World
1st Edition
By Yiyan Wang
July 11, 2012
Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa's cultural significance and the use of his poetry, novels and prose in schools and universities, there has never been any substantial ...
Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific: Economic interdependence and China's rise
1st Edition
By Kai He
June 13, 2012
This book examines the strategic interactions among China, the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asian States in the context of China’s rise and globalization after the cold war. Engaging the mainstream theoretical debates in international relations, the author introduces a new theoretical ...
Rent Seeking in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Tak-Wing Ngo, Yongping Wu
April 10, 2012
In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of the promotion of village and township enterprises by local cadres who wants to maximize revenue. At the same time, the rent-seeking state is also seen as ...
Gender and Education in China: Gender Discourses and Women's Schooling in the Early Twentieth Century
1st Edition
By Paul J. Bailey
March 21, 2012
Gender and Education in China analyzes the significance, impact and nature of women's public education in China from its beginnings at the turn of the twentieth century. Educational change was an integral aspect of the early twentieth century state-building and modernizing reforms implemented by ...