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.
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 ...
Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China: Designing a National Emissions Trading System
1st Edition
By Bo Miao
October 14, 2024
As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to ...
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 ...
Red Tourism in China: Commodification of Propaganda
1st Edition
By Chunfeng Lin
August 26, 2024
This book analyzes the phenomenally profitable “Red Tourism” industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages to sites of historical significance to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution. The book examines Red Tourism in connection with the transforming power relations ...
China’s Provinces Go Global: Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy
1st Edition
By Wiebke Rabe
May 27, 2024
This book provides novel insights into how Chinese provinces have developed into major sources of China’s outbound investments. Focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, the book compares two provinces with highest outbound investment in China, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and traces how locality-unique...
Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Wesoky, Shaopeng Song
May 27, 2024
This book assembles translations of the work of leading critical socialist feminist Song Shaopeng, presenting a concise narrative which theorizes China’s political and social development through a gendered lens. Providing insightful editor introductions, the book explores poignant themes from the ...
Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction
1st Edition
By Ruby Lai
May 27, 2024
Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates the role of individual choice, relationships, and institutions in unmarried Chinese women’s decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Where many previous studies have focused on ...