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.
Social Capital and Institutional Constraints: A Comparative Analysis of China, Taiwan and the US
1st Edition
By Joonmo Son
June 16, 2017
The sociological concept of social capital has grown in popularity in recent years and research programs in North America, Europe, and East Asia have demonstrated how social capital has a significant impact on occupational mobility, community building, social movement, and economic development. ...
Southern China: Industry, Development and Industrial Policy
1st Edition
By Marco R. Di Tommaso, Lauretta Rubini, Elisa Barbieri
June 16, 2017
By concentrating on one of the key locations of global manufacturing, this volume offers a contribution to contemporary industry studies. The rates of growth that have characterized the southern Guangdong province in the last three decades are unique, even with respect to the more general and often...
The Identity of Zhiqing: The Lost Generation
1st Edition
By Weiyi Wu, Fan Hong
June 16, 2017
Outside China, little is known about the process and implications of the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside (UMDC) Movement, a Chinese state policy from 1967 to 1979 in which more than 16 million secondary school-leavers in different cities were relocated to rural areas. The ...
Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-US Relations: Change and Continuity, Causes and Cures
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, Simon Shen
May 31, 2017
Numerous crosswinds are buffeting the more than 40-year-old People's Republic of China--American relationship, yet only once since Nixon’s historic trip to China in 1972 has a major conflagration seemed a real possibility. Anchoring the relationship throughout multiple storms are the two countries’...
Comparatizing Taiwan
1st Edition
Edited
By Shu-mei Shih, Ping-hui Liao
May 25, 2017
As the site of crossings of colonizers, settlers, merchants, and goods, island nations such as Taiwan have seen a rich confluence of cultures, where peoples and languages were either forced to mix or did so voluntarily, due largely to colonial conquest and their crucial role in world economy. ...
Local Governance Innovation in China: Experimentation, Diffusion, and Defiance
1st Edition
Edited
By Jessica C. Teets, William Hurst
May 25, 2017
Despite a centralized formal structure, Chinese politics and policy-making have long been marked by substantial degrees of regional and local variation and experimentation. These trends have, if anything, intensified as China’s reform matures. Though often remarked upon, the politicsof policy ...
Chinese Television in the Twenty-First Century: Entertaining the Nation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ruoyun Bai, Geng Song
May 24, 2017
The past two decades witnessed the rise of television entertainment in China. Although television networks are still state-owned and Party-controlled in China, the ideological landscape of television programs has become increasingly diverse and even paradoxical, simultaneously subservient and ...
Economy, Emotion, and Ethics in Chinese Cinema: Globalization on Speed
1st Edition
By David Leiwei Li
May 24, 2017
The First and Second Comings of capitalism are conceptual shorthands used to capture the radical changes in global geopolitics from the Opium War to the end of the Cold War and beyond. Centring the role of capitalism in the Chinese everyday, the framework can be employed to comprehend contemporary ...
Footbinding and Women's Labor in Sichuan
1st Edition
By Hill Gates
May 24, 2017
When Chinese women bound their daughters’ feet, many consequences ensued, some beyond the imagination of the binders and the bound. The most obvious of these consequences was to impress upon a small child’s body and mind that girls differed from boys, thus reproducing gender hierarchy. What is not ...
Incentives for Innovation in China: Building an Innovative Economy
1st Edition
By Xuedong Ding, Jun Li
May 24, 2017
In the past three decades, China has successfully transformed itself from an extremely poor economy to the world’s second largest economy. The country’s phenomenal economic growth has been sustained primarily by its rapid and continuous industrialization. Currently industry accounts for nearly ...
Media Power in Hong Kong: Hyper-Marketized Media and Cultural Resistance
1st Edition
By Charles Chi-wai Cheung
May 24, 2017
Studies of Hong Kong media primarily examine whether China will crush Hong Kong’s media freedom. This book however traces the root problem of Hong Kong media back to the colonial era, demonstrating that before the resumption of Chinese sovereignty there already existed a uniquely Hong Kong brand of...
Social Attitudes in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Chen Yu, Fang Wei, Liqing Li, Paul Morrissey, Nie Chen
May 24, 2017
Unlike many studies of social attitudes, which are based on large scale quantitative surveys, or which focus on the attitude of elites, this book considers the views of ordinary people, and is based on in-depth, qualitative interviews. This approach results in rich, nuanced data, and is especially ...