Routledge Studies on China in Transition
About the Book Series
The spectacular economic development of China has raised many questions about its future. China in Transition participates in the intellectual developments by focusing on social, political and cultural change in the China of the 1990s and beyond. Drawing on new research from scholars in Asia, Australia, North America and Europe, this series is invaluable in monitoring reform and interpreting the consequences for China, its neighbours and the West.
Feminist Explorations of Urban China
1st Edition
Edited
By Penn Tsz Ting Ip
February 11, 2025
This book explores gender topics related to social transitions and social struggles in the context of the urban transformations accompanying the evolving political economy of China’s New Era, here defined as the period since 2017. Analyzing a range of feminist perspectives, and empirically based ...
Communications in Contemporary China: Orchestrating Thinking
1st Edition
Edited
By Nicole Talmacs, Altman Yuzhu Peng
December 18, 2024
Using the analogy of an orchestra, the book looks at the ways in which the Party-state conducts communications in China. Rather than treating China’s communications system as purely one of centralised top-down control, this book proffers that it is the combination of the government through its ...
Educating Migrant Children in China: Social Citizenship and Exclusion
1st Edition
By Chengqi Cao
August 27, 2024
This book explores social citizenship through the lens of investigating local compulsory education policy targeting migrant children in Beijing and Guangzhou. Deploying a multi-case methodology, this book illustrates how these two local governments respond to central decisions on compulsory ...
The Precariat in Western China: Poverty, Risks, and Influences
1st Edition
By Xueyang Ma
June 14, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive picture for understanding the experiences and dynamics of precarious workers’ in-work poverty in western China. The research presented in this book identifies the causes and the consequences of precarious employment and in- work poverty and analyses the ...
Suzhou in Transition
1st Edition
Edited
By Beibei Tang, Paul Cheung
May 30, 2022
Through the lens of the city of Suzhou, this edited volume presents views on the complex interaction between the central state, market agents, local governments and individuals who have shaped the development of Chinese cities and urban life. Featuring a range of disciplinary perspectives, ...
Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuity in the "New Era"
1st Edition
Edited
By Zhengxu Wang, Dragan Pavlićević
April 29, 2022
As China enters its proclaimed ‘New Era’ under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating new developments against the backdrop of continuations of long-term trends and previous policies. What has remained outside ...
Governing HIV in China: Commercial Sex, Homosexuality and Rural-to-Urban Migration
1st Edition
By Elaine Jeffreys, Gang Su
January 17, 2019
HIV and AIDS have long been problematized in the People’s Republic of China as objects of governance in political frameworks and institutions. The state’s attitudes towards health programs have, nevertheless, changed significantly during the 21st century. Pilot programs at the beginning of the ...
Negotiating Ethnicity in China: Citizenship as a Response to the State
1st Edition
By Chih-yu Shih
August 09, 2018
This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.Disclosing endless mini negotiations between those acting in the name of the Chinese state and those carrying the ...
The Development of China's Stockmarket, 1984-2002: Equity Politics and Market Institutions
1st Edition
By Stephen Green
August 09, 2018
As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in China over the ...
NGO Governance and Management in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Reza Hasmath, Jennifer Y.J. Hsu
November 22, 2017
As China becomes increasingly integrated into the global system there will be continuing pressure to acknowledge and engage with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Suffice to say, without a clear understanding of the state’s interaction with NGOs, and vice versa, any political, economic and ...
Choosing China's Leaders
1st Edition
Edited
By Chien-wen Kou, Xiaowei Zang
October 12, 2017
Political elites are a key topic in contemporary China studies, and have been investigated in relation to factional politics, generation politics, technocracy, and crucially, institutionalization. The institutionalization of elite replacement began in China in the 1980s and quickly accelerated ...
Prostitution Scandals in China: Policing, Media and Society
1st Edition
By Elaine Jeffreys
May 31, 2017
Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal ...