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.
Homeownership in Hong Kong: House Buying as Hope Mechanism
1st Edition
By Chung-kin Tsang
May 25, 2021
This book studies the cultural framework of the connections between homeownership and social stability in Hong Kong. In the post-war period, homeownership became the most preferable housing choice in developed societies, such as Australia, Britain, Japan, Spain, and the United States. In the ...
Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics: From the Tributary System to the Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Asım Doğan
May 21, 2021
Hegemony with Chinese Characteristics compares the historical relationship of China with its neighbours to the developing trajectory of the Belt and Road Initiative, and asks what this tells us about the kind of hegemon China is likely to become. China is going to play a more active and ...
Urbanization, Regional Development and Governance in China
1st Edition
By Jianfa Shen
March 31, 2021
Rapid urbanization in China in recent decades and the challenges of social and regional integration and governance have been issues of major concern. This book explores the course of urbanization and development in China over recent decades. It considers a range of issues including urbanization, ...
China's Relations with Central and Eastern Europe: From "Old Comrades" to New Partners
1st Edition
Edited
By Weiqing Song
December 12, 2019
As China rises as an economic and an international power, new relationships are being forged with all areas of the world including Central and Eastern Europe. This book explores how this relationship is developing. It considers how China’s links with Central and Eastern Europe fit in to China’s ...
Competing Economic Paradigms in China: The Co-Evolution of Economic Events, Economic Theory and Economics Education, 1976�2016
1st Edition
By Steven Mark Cohn
December 12, 2019
When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics journals to government departments and economic think tanks. By the year 2000, neoclassical economics dominated these institutions and...
Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy
1st Edition
By Ronald Keith
December 12, 2019
Deng Xiaoping is widely acknowledged as the principal architect of China’s economic reforms, but how far was he also responsible for shaping China’s foreign policy which emphasized “peace and development”? This book explores Deng’s foreign policy and shows how he established basic principles for ...
Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s
1st Edition
By Giorgio Strafella
January 10, 2019
This book explores intellectual discourse in reform era China by analysing the so-called “debate on the spirit of the Humanities”, which occurred in the years 1993-95, and which is recognised by scholars as one of the most interesting, influential and important debates of the 1990s. This debate, in...
China's Peasant Agriculture and Rural Society: Changing paradigms of farming
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Douwe van der Ploeg, Jingzhong Ye
August 14, 2018
China's agriculture and rural society has undergone rapid changes in recent years. Many poorer farmers and younger people have moved to cities, and yet China has an immense challenge to feed a growing and more affluent population. This book provides a ‘bottom-up view’ of China’s agriculture,&...
Social Policy and Migration in China
1st Edition
By Lida Fan
August 09, 2018
This book explores the interactions between social policy and migration in China. Using a theoretical framework of institutional economics, Lida Fan’s discussion examines migration regulations, household registration, social welfare and insurance, employment, education, housing, medical care and ...
State-Market Interactions in China's Reform Era: Local State Competition and Global Market Building in the Tobacco Industry
1st Edition
By Junmin Wang
August 09, 2018
China today has the largest communist political regime and one of the most dynamic, fastest-growing, and largest economies in the world. Using a case study of China’s tobacco industry, this book analyses how the Chinese government was able to cultivate big state-owned firms that have successfully ...
China’s Regions in an Era of Globalization
1st Edition
By Tim Summers
June 18, 2018
The rise of China has been shaped and driven by its engagement with the global economy during a period of intensified globalization, yet China is a continent-sized economy and society with substantial diversity across its different regions. This means that its engagement with the global economy ...
China's Approach to Central Asia: The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation
1st Edition
By Weiqing Song
January 12, 2018
This book examines, comprehensively, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the regional organisation which consists of China, Russia and most of the Central Asian countries. It charts the development of the Organisation from the establishment of its precursor, the Shanghai Five, in 1996, through ...