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.
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
Edited
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
Edited
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 ...
Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State
1st Edition
By Runya Qiaoan
May 31, 2023
Chinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This book examines why some groups are successful in policy advocacy within the authoritarian context, while others fail. A ...
Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China: Government versus Local Perspectives
1st Edition
By Wei Wang, Lisong Jiang
May 31, 2023
Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the discursive practices of the local government and the villagers in relation to the reconstruction of Kam identity in response to social change, particularly ...
Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation in Hong Kong: Creative and Tactical Belonging
1st Edition
By Lisa Y.M. Leung
May 31, 2023
Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule,...
Local Clan Communities in Rural China: Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty
1st Edition
By Zongli Tang
May 31, 2023
Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, this book examines China’s clan system and local clan communities in rural Anhui, covering events in two periods: the imperial pattern as seen in the first half of the twentieth century and changes since 1949. Revealed by this research, during the...
The Politics of Waste Management in Greater China: Environmental Governance and Public Participation in Transition
1st Edition
By Natalie Wai Man Wong
May 31, 2023
The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial. Wong examines the politics of managing municipal waste in three cities of Greater China: Guangzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. She ...