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.
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 ...
China's Military Procurement in the Reform Era: The Setting of New Directions
1st Edition
By Yoram Evron
June 30, 2020
The decisions that shape the policy of weapons procurement are an important area of national security policy. This is all the more true for China, which during recent decades has vacillated between different sources and directions of military build-up.This book explores the politics of military ...
Disability Policy in China: Child and family experiences
1st Edition
By Xiaoyuan Shang, Karen R. Fisher
June 30, 2020
Without access to a public social welfare system in parts of China, some families face invidious decisions about the lives of their children with disabilities. In other places, children with disabilities can now expect to participate in their families and communities with the same aspirations as ...
Globalization and Welfare Restructuring in China: The Authoritarianism That Listens?
1st Edition
By Huisheng Shou
June 30, 2020
In the past few decades, the change in China’s welfare system has been characterised by a balanced distribution of benefits across social sectors and the institutionalization of welfare redistribution. This process has occurred without significant political change that would empower politically ...
Illicit Industries and China’s Shadow Economy: Challenges and Prospects for Global Governance and Human Security
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Teo, Sungwon Yoon
June 30, 2020
This book considers a wide range of illicit industries in China, exploring what drives such activities, why consumers tolerate them to differing degrees, how attempts to regulate them are implemented and how such regulation is resisted. Industries considered include human smuggling, human organs ...
Innovative and Creative Industries in Hong Kong: A Global City in China and Asia
1st Edition
By Grace L K Leung
June 30, 2020
The experience of Hong Kong’s innovative and creative industries and the challenges they face serves as an important case study for other Chinese and Asian cities that are actively developing their innovative and creative industries in the era of globalization. The return of sovereignty over ...
Western Bankers in China: Institutional Change and Corporate Governance
1st Edition
By Jane Nolan
June 30, 2020
When China’s economic reforms were beginning, there was an expectation in the west that China’s financial markets would be opened to western banks and that China’s banks would be reformed along western lines. Joint ventures between Chinese banks and western banks, minority shareholding by western ...
Xinjiang in the Twenty-First Century: Islam, Ethnicity and Resistance
1st Edition
By Michael Dillon
June 30, 2020
There has been a significant increase in the twenty-first century in the frequency and intensity of violent incidents in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, the far northwest province of China, where the Uyghurs, the Turkic-speaking Muslim people who historically constituted the majority ...
China Studies in the Philippines: Intellectual Paths and the Formation of a Field
1st Edition
Edited
By Tina Clemente, Chih-yu Shih
May 07, 2020
As China Studies has grown as a discipline, it has also tended to be dominated by the major international powers, particularly China itself, and the USA. It is important to remember, however, that there is a rich and diverse history of China Studies elsewhere, especially in Southeast Asia. The ...
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...