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.
The Reception and Rendition of Freud in China: China’s Freudian Slip
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By Tao Jiang, Philip J. Ivanhoe
May 24, 2017
Although Freud makes only occasional, brief references to China and Chinese culture in his works, for almost a hundred years many leading Chinese intellectuals have studied and appropriated various Freudian theories. However, whilst some features of Freud’s views have been warmly embraced from the ...
Religion and Ecological Sustainability in China
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By James Miller, Dan Smyer Yu, Peter van der Veer
May 10, 2017
This book sheds light on the social imagination of nature and environment in contemporary China. It demonstrates how the urgent debate on how to create an ecologically sustainable future for the world’s most populous country is shaped by its complex engagement with religious traditions, competing ...
Housing Inequality in Chinese Cities
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By Youqin Huang, Si-ming Li
May 03, 2017
In recent decades, Chinese cities have experienced profound social, economic and spatial transformations. In particular, Chinese cities have witnessed the largest housing boom in history and unprecedented housing privatization. China now is a country of homeowners, with more than 70 per cent of ...
Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Shuyu Kong
December 20, 2016
Since the early 1990s the media and cultural fields in China have become increasingly commercialized, resulting in a massive boom in the cultural and entertainment industries. This evolution has also brought about fundamental changes in media behaviour and communication, and the enormous growth of ...
Transforming Chinese Cities
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By Mark Wang, Pookong Kee, Jia Gao
December 14, 2016
The urbanisation of China over the last three decades has been a hugely significant development, both for China’s reform process and for the world more generally. This book presents recent research findings on China’s continuing urban transformation. Subjects covered include the decline of the ...
Globalization and Public Sector Reform in China
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By Kjeld Erik Brødsgaard
December 08, 2016
This book analyses public sector reform comprehensively in all parts of China’s public sector – government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that reform of the public sector has become an issue of great concern to the Chinese leaders, who realize that ...
New Confucianism in Twenty-First Century China: The Construction of a Discourse
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By Jesus Sole-Farras
July 27, 2016
This book explores how Confucian thought, which was the ideological underpinning of traditional, imperial China, is being developed and refined into a New Confucianism relevant for the twenty-first century. It traces the development of Confucian thought, examines significant new texts, and shows ...
China's Supreme Court
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By Ronald C. Keith, Zhiqiu Lin, Shumei Hou
March 03, 2016
This book examines the learning curve of the People's Supreme Court of China as an expanding Chinese national institution that has played a key role in the struggle for the rule of law in China. Within the unity of state administration and the requirements of the constitution, the court has ...
Sustainable Development in China
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By Curtis Andressen, A.R. Mubarak, Xiaoyi Wang
March 03, 2016
Over the past three decades, China’s economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China’s enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish,...
Industrialisation and Rural Livelihoods in China: Agricultural Processing in Sichuan
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By Susanne Lingohr-Wolf
February 29, 2016
Since the mid-1990s, "agricultural industrialisation" (AI) has been advocated in China to promote rural development by integrating agriculture with the post-harvest sectors such as agro-processing and marketing. Large-scale "Dragon head enterprises" (DHEs) and various forms of rural household ...
Innovation in China: The Chinese Software Industry
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By Shang-Ling Jui
January 20, 2016
A key question for China, which has for some time been a leading global manufacturing base, is whether China can progress from being a traditional centre of manufacturing to becoming a centre for innovation. In this book, Shang-Ling Jui focuses on China’s software industry and examines the complete...
Rural Migrants in Urban China: Enclaves and Transient Urbanism
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By Fulong Wu, Fangzhu Zhang, Chris Webster
December 07, 2015
After millions of migrants moved from China’s countryside into its sprawling cities a unique kind of ‘informal’ urban enclave was born – ‘villages in the city’. Like the shanties and favelas before them elsewhere, there has been huge pressure to redevelop these blemishes to the urban face of China’...