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.
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 ...
Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Shengqing Wu, Xuelei Huang
May 27, 2024
This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies. Bringing together 12 chapters by literary scholars and historians, this book critically interrogates the deeply ...
China, Taiwan, and International Sporting Events: Face-Off in Cross-Strait Relations
1st Edition
By Marcus P. Chu
January 29, 2024
Chu explores the politics behind Taiwanese cities’ pursuit of international sporting events, and the Chinese authorities’ strategic measures in handling the relations with Taiwan since the 1990s. It is assumed that the Chinese authorities constantly oppose Taiwanese cities’ application for, and ...
Chinese Regionalism in Asia: Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
Edited
By Tiang Boon Hoo, Jared Morgan Mckinney
January 29, 2024
With globalization on the wane in a world fractured by growing great power competition, Hoo and McKinney argue that regionalism is likely to re-emerge as a focal area of significance and interest in the coming years. In Asia, how regionalism evolves is inescapably linked to China’s part in this ...
Corporate Women in Contemporary China: “We’ve Always Worked”
1st Edition
By Xinyan Peng
January 29, 2024
Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties...
The Politics of Education Reform in China’s Hong Kong
1st Edition
By Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo, Chung Fun Steven Hung
January 29, 2024
Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the government of Hong Kong, the ...
The Pulse of China’s Grand Strategy
1st Edition
By Jean Kachiga
January 29, 2024
This book identifies and assesses the grand strategy of Chinese foreign policy following a flurry of diplomatic and investment activities in recent years. Through its adept application of the concept of grand strategy, it examines a series of questions concerning China’s objectives, targets, ...
Work Safety Regulation in China: The CCP’s Fatality Quota System
1st Edition
By Jie Gao
January 29, 2024
Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial section and local governments are being used to promote work safety and therefore, reducing the number of work-related deaths. Given the controversial nature of this policy, Gao analyzes how the fatality quotas are functioning to aid the ...
China’s Carbon-Energy Policy and Asia’s Energy Transition: Carbon Leakage, Relocation and Halos
1st Edition
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By Akihisa Mori
September 25, 2023
This book seeks to examine the impacts associated with China’s carbon-energy policy in Asia and how, coupled with the Belt and Road Initiative, these effects prompt foreign direct investments in coal power and exports of renewable energy technologies. China shows a co-evolution of carbon-energy ...
Ecocriticism and Chinese Literature: Imagined Landscapes and Real Lived Spaces
1st Edition
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By Riccardo Moratto, Nicoletta Pesaro, Di-kai Chao
September 25, 2023
Focusing on ecocritical aspects throughout Chinese literature, particularly modern and contemporary Chinese literature, the contributors to this book examine the environmental and ecological dimensions of notions such as qing (情) and jing (境). Chinese modern and contemporary environmental writing ...
China's Globalization from Below: Chinese Entrepreneurial Migrants and the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Theodor Tudoroiu
May 31, 2023
This book analyzes the Chinese-centered globalization ‘from below’ brought about by China’s entrepreneurial migrants and conceived of as a projection of Chinese power in the Belt and Road Initiative partner states. It identifies the features of this globalization ‘from below,’ scrutinizes its ...