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.
Radio and Social Transformation in China
1st Edition
By Wei Lei
June 30, 2021
The first systematic, comprehensive and critical English-language study of radio in China, this book documents a historical understanding of Chinese radio from the early twentieth century to the present. Covering both public matters and private lives, Radio and Social Transformation in China ...
Securitization of the Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong: The Rise of a Patriotocratic System
1st Edition
By Cora Y.T. Hui
June 30, 2021
In recent years, the city many hoped would help democratize China has instead become a research setting in which to study China’s increasing intolerance of dissent. Since Hong Kong’s return to Chinese sovereignty in 1997, China’s treatment of Hong Kong could be divided into three stages: ...
Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China: Morning Sun in the Tiny Times
1st Edition
By Hui Faye Xiao
June 30, 2021
This book surveys the explosive youth culture in twenty-first century China, an active and powerful force catalysing cultural innovations, social changes, and collective efforts, re-inventing a pluralistic and multivalent youth (qingnian) in an age of enormous change, division and uncertainty. ...
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, ...
Migration in Post-Colonial Hong Kong
1st Edition
Edited
By Susanne Y.P. Choi, Eric Fong
September 30, 2020
Since 1995 most mainland migrants to Hong Kong have been the wives or non-adult children of Hong Kong men of lower socio-economic status. The majority of immigrants are women, who throughout the past two decades have accounted for more than 60% of immigration. The profile of immigrants has been ...
Re-engineering Affordable Care Policy in China: Is Marketization a Solution?
1st Edition
By Peter Nan-shong Lee
September 30, 2020
Presenting a comprehensive examination of China’s medical care system, this book tackles issues of policymaking, organization, management and financing in the context of the provision of affordable care in China. Making use of extensive field investigations, interviews and a thorough analysis of ...
The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development
1st Edition
By Shaohua Zhan
September 30, 2020
This book interrogates the inevitability and practicability of full-scale, land-intensive capitalist agriculture in China, whilst analyzing the labor-intensive industrious revolution as an alternative rural development path. It presents a critical account of the recent rise of agrarian ...
China's Virtual Monopoly of Rare Earth Elements: Economic, Technological and Strategic Implications
1st Edition
By Roland Howanietz
August 14, 2020
Rare Earth Elements are a group of 17 metals which have a central role in modern industry, increasingly used in the fields of green technologies, high technological consumer goods, industrial and medical appliances and modern weapons systems. Although deposits of Rare Earths are globally dispersed,...
Explaining Railway Reform in China: A Train of Property Rights Re-arrangements
1st Edition
By Linda Tjia Yin-nor
August 14, 2020
Having been state-owned for decades, the railway reform in China confused many people, particularly in terms of its ownership and property rights arrangements. Western literature always prescribes that the best model for railway reform is privatization. China’s leadership has also enunciated the ...
Midwifery in China
1st Edition
By Ngai Fen Cheung, Rosemary Mander
August 14, 2020
The first book to present the history, ideas, life and works of Chinese midwives and birth attendants, this volume seeks to encapsulate and explain the changing ideas about the practice of midwifery in China. Using participant observations and interviews, it examines each phase of the development ...