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.
Gender, Intimacy, and Class in a Changing China: The Individual and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Fiona Gill
December 29, 2025
This book examines the varieties of continuity and change evident in the development of contemporary Chinese society’s attitudes and practices related to gender, intimacy, and class. By focusing on innovative aspects of gendered experiences in contemporary China, this book reveals the developing ...
Educating Migrant Children in China: Social Citizenship and Exclusion
1st Edition
By Chengqi Cao
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Contemporary Environmental Policy Governance in China: The Transformation of Municipal Solid Waste Management
1st Edition
By Victoria S. Zhou
December 24, 2025
This book examines environmental governance in China during the Xi Jinping era. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, this book uses the eco-transformation of waste management as a case study to reveal how central authorities exert political pressure to enforce national policy visions, while local ...
The Precariat in Western China: Poverty, Risks and Influences
1st Edition
By Xueyang Ma
November 28, 2025
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Public Participation and State Building in China: Case Studies from Zhejiang
1st Edition
By Dragan Pavlićević
June 30, 2021
This book explores non-electoral means of public participation in contemporaryChina, both as an outcome of and a key contributor to the party-state’sefforts to improve its governing capacity.Examining consultative meetings, public hearings, and the use of surveysand questionnaires in Zhejiang ...
Local Elites in Post-Mao China
1st Edition
Edited
By Yingjie Guo
July 31, 2019
This book provides fresh insights into the study of Chinese elites at the county level and below. By shifting the analytical focus onto the agency of elites at the local level and away from the institutional structures within which they operate, it fills a number of significant gaps in the field. ...
China's Architecture in a Globalizing World: Between Socialism and the Market
1st Edition
By Jiawen Han
May 14, 2019
China is currently in the midst of an unprecedented building boom and, indeed, interest in Chinese contemporary architecture has been fuelled by this huge expansion. Through a cutting-edge theoretical discussion of Chinese architecture in relation to Chinese modernity, this book examines this ...
China's Housing Middle Class: Changing Urban Life in Gated Communities
1st Edition
By Beibei Tang
March 21, 2019
Home ownership plays a significant role in locating the middle class in most western societies, associated with market, consumerism, democracy and “people like us”, the significant features of the middle class for any society. In China, private home ownership was not the norm from 1949, when the ...