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.
Inside Xinjiang: Space, Place and Power in China's Muslim Far Northwest
1st Edition
Edited
By Anna Hayes, Michael Clarke
January 12, 2018
The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is China’s largest province, shares borders with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia and Mongolia, and possesses a variety of natural resources, including oil. The tensions between ethnic Muslim Uyghurs and the growing number of ...
Teacher Management in China: The Transformation of Educational Systems
1st Edition
By Eva Huang, John Benson, Ying Zhu
January 12, 2018
Education has long been highly valued in China, and continues to be highly valued, both by the state, which appreciates the value of education for maintaining China's economic rise, and by parents, who, affected by the One Child Policy, devote a large proportion of their incomes to their one ...
Chinese Environmental Aesthetics: Wangheng Chen, Wuhan University, China, translated by Feng Su, Hunan Normal University, China
1st Edition
Edited
By Gerald Cipriani
January 03, 2018
China is currently afflicted by enormous environmental problems. This book, drawing on ancient and modern Chinese environmental thinking, considers what it is that makes an environment a desirable place for living. The book emphasises ideas of beauty, and discusses how these ideas can be applied in...
China's Energy Security: A Multidimensional Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Giulia Romano, Jean-Francois Meglio
December 22, 2017
A secure supply of energy is essential for all nations, to sustain their economy, and indeed their very survival. This subject is especially important in the case of China, as China’s booming economy and consequent demand for energy is affecting the whole world, and in turn potentially driving ...
Chinese Migration and Economic Relations with Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Marco Sanfilippo, Agnieszka Weinar
December 21, 2017
This book explores how far existing networks of overseas Chinese and new flows of migrants act as drivers of economic relations between China and the host countries. It considers migration, trade, the flow of capital, and foreign direct investment, includes both skilled and unskilled migrants, and ...
Economy Hotels in China: A Glocalized Innovative Hospitality Sector
1st Edition
By Songshan Sam Huang, Xuhua Michael Sun
October 26, 2017
While economy or budget hotels have been popular in western countries since the end of the Second World War, they have only emerged as a sector in their own right in China since the mid-1990s. Indeed, as a new service industry sector, economy hotels in China demonstrate important characteristics ...
China and Global Trade Governance: China's First Decade in the World Trade Organization
1st Edition
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By Ka Zeng, Wei Liang
October 23, 2017
China's historic accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in November 2001 not only represents an important milestone in the country’s transition to a market economy and integration into the global economy, but is also among the most important events in the history of the WTO and the ...
Forecasting China's Future: Dominance or Collapse?
1st Edition
By Roger Irvine
October 23, 2017
China’s future development is likely to have a huge impact on twenty-first century global outcomes. It is therefore surprising that, thus far, so little attention has been given to comparing and evaluating expert forecasts of China’s future in the post-Mao era. This book presents an illuminating ...
Queer Sinophone Cultures
1st Edition
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By Howard Chiang, Ari Larissa Heinrich
October 23, 2017
The Sinophone framework emphasises the diversity of Chinese-speaking communities and cultures, and seeks to move beyond a binary model of China and the West. Indeed, this strikingly resembles attempts within the queer studies movement to challenge the dimorphisms of sex and gender. Bringing ...
Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a 'Modern' Man
1st Edition
By Xiaodong Lin
October 12, 2017
Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and ...
International Regimes in China: Domestic Implementation of the International Fisheries Agreements
1st Edition
By Gianluca Ferraro
October 12, 2017
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, more than 80% of world’s fish stocks are fully exploited, over-exploited, depleted, or recovering from depletion. Although several international agreements have promoted more responsible fisheries, coastal states have ...
Animation in China: History, Aesthetics, Media
1st Edition
By Sean Macdonald
June 16, 2017
By the turn of the 21st century, animation production has grown to thousands of hours a year in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Despite this, and unlike American blockbuster productions and the diverse genres of Japanese anime, much animation from the PRC remains relatively unknown. This ...