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.
State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China: The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched
1st Edition
By Yongshun Cai
January 16, 2014
In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in ...
Cities in China: Recipes for economic development in the reform era
1st Edition
Edited
By Jae Ho Chung
October 23, 2013
This volume, written by contributors from a number of different specialisms, suggests that different combinations of factors have contributed to the relative successes and failures in these cities. Endowment factors, preferential policies, and history have all proved to be important. Most ...
Tiger Girls: Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China
1st Edition
By Minglu Chen
May 31, 2013
The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage ...
Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'
1st Edition
By Susan Trevaskes
April 12, 2013
Despite a resurgence in the number of studies of Chinese social control over the past decade or so, no sustained work in English has detailed the recent developments in policy and practice against serious crime, despite international recognition that Chinese policing of serious crime is relatively ...
The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
1st Edition
By Jane Duckett
April 12, 2013
Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. Using an analytical framework drawn from studies of state retrenchment in industrialized democracies and in post-communist Eastern Europe...
China's Rational Entrepreneurs: The Development of the New Private Sector
1st Edition
By Barbara Krug
November 14, 2012
The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least because it forms the basis of China's economic development. Combining theoretical approaches with extensive fieldwork, China's Rational Entrepreneurs...
International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon
1st Edition
By Katherine Morton
November 01, 2012
Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its ...
Transforming Rural China: How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China
1st Edition
By Chih-Jou Jay Chen
September 25, 2012
It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private ...
China's Scientific Elite
1st Edition
By Cong Cao
September 10, 2012
China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community and ...
China, Sex and Prostitution
1st Edition
By Elaine Jeffreys
September 10, 2012
China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police ...
The Chinese State in Transition: Processes and contests in local China
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Chelan Li
February 23, 2012
One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world focuses inevitably on Beijing and national level politics. Nonetheless, it may actually ...
China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine Jeffreys
July 01, 2011
Since the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) embarked on a programme of ‘reform and openness’ in the late 1970s, Chinese society has undergone a series of dramatic transformations in almost all realms of social, cultural, economic and political life and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has emerged ...