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.
Economic Development in China's Northwest: Entrepreneurship and identity along China’s multi-ethnic borderlands
1st Edition
By Joshua Bird
January 17, 2019
Under the ethnic affairs management regime established by the People’s Republic of China, every Chinese citizen is classified within one of 56 state-recognised ‘nationalities’. Government policy assumes that these nationalities differ from one another primarily in their levels of economic ...
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 ...
China's Cinema of Class: Audiences and Narratives
1st Edition
By Nicole Talmacs
August 14, 2018
China’s commercial film industry can be used as a map to understand how class is interwoven into the imaginations that inform and influence social change in Chinese society. Film consumption is important in this process, particularly for young adult urbanites that are China’s primary commercial ...
New Mentalities of Government in China
1st Edition
Edited
By David Bray, Elaine Jeffreys
August 14, 2018
China continues to transform apace, flowing from the forces of deregulation, privatization and globalization unleashed by economic reforms which began in late 1978. The dramatic scope of economic change in China is often counterposed to the apparent lack of political change as demonstrated by ...
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 ...
Dams, Migration and Authoritarianism in China: The Local State in Yunnan
1st Edition
By Sabrina Habich
June 28, 2018
Past studies on the Chinese state point towards the inherent adaptability, effectiveness and overall stability of authoritarian rule in China. The key question addressed here is how this adaptive capacity plays out at the local level in China, clarifying the extent to which local state actors are ...
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 ...
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 ...