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 Chinese Lifestyle: The Reconfiguration of the Middle Class in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Alfonso Sanchez-Romera
January 13, 2023
The research presented in this book explores the formation of the middle class in contemporary urban China. Including case studies on middle-class professionals living in Beijing, this book analyses how social and economic changes to Chinese society create a middle-class lifestyle and new forms of...
China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates: Oil as an Idea
1st Edition
By Anna Kuteleva
January 09, 2023
This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China’s global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural contexts....
Modern Art for a Modern China: The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930
1st Edition
By Yiyan Wang
May 30, 2022
How did art reform fit into the many initiatives for social and cultural change that contributed to the New Cultural Movement that transformed the Chinese cultural landscape during the Republican period?"Modern art for a modern China" was the rallying cry of Chinese intellectuals, many of whom were...
China's Quest for Sporting Mega-Events: The Politics of International Bids
1st Edition
By Marcus P. Chu
May 06, 2022
This book vividly elucidates the inseparable nature between politics and sport in China. The holding of sporting mega-events is viewed by the Chinese authorities as a prominent way to push forward the Reform and Opening up, arouse the patriotism among the public, and display national resurgence in...
Chinese Energy Companies in Africa: Implications for the Foreign Policy of an Authoritarian State
1st Edition
By T. Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen
May 06, 2022
Over the last decade, Chinese energy companies have engaged in the acquisition of oil and gas in Africa. This book investigates the activities of Chinese energy companies throughout a number of African countries, including Nigeria, Angola, Sudan and Tunisia. Based on seven years of empirical ...
Macau 20 Years after the Handover: Changes and Challenges under “One Country, Two Systems”
1st Edition
Edited
By Meng U Ieong
May 06, 2022
This book outlines the major social and political changes in the city of Macau during its first 20 years under the "One Country, Two Systems" arrangement with Mainland China.Despite the long-standing image of Macau as Asia’s Las Vegas, it is a city that has changed a great deal since its return to ...
China's International Socialization of Political Elites in the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Theodor Tudoroiu, with Amanda R. Ramlogan
April 29, 2022
This book argues that China’s international socialization of the political elites of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) partner states is an exceptionally effective instrument of China’s current foreign policy. It shows how the BRI-related process of socialization generates shared beliefs in the ...
Doing Labor Activism in South China: The Complicity of Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Darcy Pan
April 29, 2022
How did labor NGOs come into existence in contemporary China? How do labor activists act – or not act – when the limits of state tolerance are unclear? With a focus on labor NGOs in South China and Western funding agencies, this book sets out to address these questions by investigating the dynamics...
Regional Inequality in Transitional China
1st Edition
By Felix Haifeng Liao, Yehua Dennis Wei, Li Huang
April 29, 2022
This book investigates uneven regional development in China – with particular focus on the cases of Guangdong and Zheijiang provinces – which have been at the forefront of debate since Chinese economic reform. Rapid economic growth since the ‘opening-up’ of China has been accompanied by ...
China's Foreign Policy since 1949: Continuity and Change
1st Edition
By Kevin Cai
January 25, 2022
This book provides a systematic and comprehensive analysis and overview of China’s foreign policy since 1949. It starts with constructing an analytical framework for explaining Chinese foreign policy and then, on the basis of that, outlines and analyzes developments in different areas of foreign ...
Economic Policy Making In China (1949–2016): The Role of Economists
1st Edition
By Pieter Bottelier
September 30, 2021
This book explores the key ideas and the key people who were responsible for the development of China’s economy from 1949 through 2016. It discusses how economic policy evolved, how economic policy was formulated and how the role of economists in decision making evolved. It considers the interplay ...
The Lahu Minority in Southwest China: A Response to Ethnic Marginalization on the Frontier
1st Edition
By Jianxiong Ma
September 30, 2021
The Lahu, with a population of around 470,000, inhabit the mountainous country in Yunnan Province bordering on Burma, Laos and northern Thailand. Buddhists, with a long history of resistance to the Chinese Han majority, the Lahu are currently facing a serious collapse of their traditional social ...