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.
Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: New Socialist Countryside
1st Edition
By Anna Ahlers
April 27, 2017
At the turn of the millennium, the disparities between rural and urban livelihoods, underdevelopment and administrative shortcomings in the Chinese countryside were increasingly seen as posing a manifest threat to social harmony and economic and political stability. At that time the term "three ...
Elites and Governance in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiaowei Zang, Chien-wen Kou
March 03, 2016
This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes ...
Rural Tax Reform in China: Policy Processes and Institutional Change
1st Edition
By Linda Chelan Li
October 29, 2015
This book examines questions of change and inertia in the context of the longstanding grievances over excessive taxation in rural China. How can some changes be sustained, whilst others cannot? How can a longstanding administrative practice be changed or even terminated, especially when previous ...
Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
1st Edition
Edited
By Merle Goldman, Edward Gu
July 20, 2015
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from a centrally planned to a market one, and as China opened up to the outside world and was influenced by the outside world, Chinese ...
China's Cotton Industry: Economic Transformation and State Capacity
1st Edition
By Björn Alpermann
February 27, 2015
The cotton processing industry is a distinct sector of China’s rural economy which recently underwent a momentous transition from plan to market. China is the world’s largest producer as well as consumer of cotton, and cotton processing links the agricultural production of this important commodity ...
Small Town China: Rural Labour and Social Inclusion
1st Edition
By Beatriz Carrillo Garcia
February 27, 2015
While much has been written about rural migrant workers’ experiences in the big cities, population movements into China’s vast network of towns and small cities has been largely neglected. This book presents a detailed case study of rural migrant workers experiences in a small town in a north China...
Unequal China: The political economy and cultural politics of inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Wanning Sun, Yingjie Guo
February 27, 2015
Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People’s Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist Party and many commentators in the international arena as the most spectacular achievements...
Young Chinese in Urban China
1st Edition
By Alex Cockain
February 27, 2015
This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves. The author examines social factors such as changes in the physical construction of urban neighbourhoods; ...
Tourism and Modernity in China
1st Edition
By Tim Oakes
December 01, 2014
This book explores how the experience of modernization is revealed in China's newly constructed tourist landscapes. It argues that in China's burgeoning ethnic tourist villages and theme parks can be seen all the contradictions, debasement, and liberating potentials of Chinese modernity. Tim Oakes ...
Grassroots Charisma: Four Local Leaders in China
1st Edition
By Stephan Feuchtwang, Wang Mingming
August 12, 2014
This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: Colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The authors compare Chinese notions of respect and inspiration with their equivalents in other religious and political histories of colonial and post-colonial modernity, ...
China's Changing Welfare Mix: Local Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatriz Carrillo, Jane Duckett
March 13, 2014
This book draws attention to two neglected areas in the growing body of research on welfare in China: subnational variation and the changing mix of state and non-state provision. The contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of local welfare provision that lies behind broad national ...
China's Thought Management
1st Edition
Edited
By Anne-Marie Brady
March 13, 2014
China's Thought Management argues that by re-emphasizing and modernizing propaganda and thought work since 1989, the CCP has managed to overcome a succession of local and national level crises - the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, the impact of the collapse Socialism in the Eastern bloc, SARS, ...