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.
China's Embedded Activism: Opportunities and constraints of a social movement
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Ho, Richard Edmonds
March 15, 2011
In recent years China has been remarkable in achieving extraordinary economic transformation, yet without fundamental political change. To many observers this would seem to imply a weakness in Chinese civil society. However, though the idea of democracy as multitudes of citizens taking to the ...
China's Urban Space: Development under market socialism
1st Edition
By Terry McGee, George C.S. Lin, Mark Wang, Andrew Marton, Jiaping Wu
March 15, 2011
China’s urban growth is unparalleled in the history of global urbanization, and will undoubtedly create huge challenges to China as it modernizes its society. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this book presents an overview of the radical transformation of China’s urban space since the 1970s,...
Ethnicity and Urban Life in China: A Comparative Study of Hui Muslims and Han Chinese
1st Edition
By Xiaowei Zang
March 15, 2011
This much-needed work on ethnicity in Asia offers a major sociological analysis of Hui Muslims in contemporary China. Using both qualitative and quantitative data derived from fieldwork in Lanzhou between March 2001 and July 2004, it looks at the contrast between the urban life of the Han people, ...
Marketization and Democracy in China
1st Edition
By Jianjun Zhang
December 11, 2009
Since China began an era of market reform three decades ago, many Westerners believed that, political liberalization and, eventually, democracy would follow. However, contrary to Western expectations, China remains an authoritarian country and the communist party is still in power, even though the ...
China's Reforms and International Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By David Zweig, Zhimin Chen
May 26, 2009
Written by an international team of experts from the US, UK, Hong Kong, China, Korea and Canada, this important and interesting book examines and explores the relationship between the international political and economic system, and China’s economic and political transition. Exploring ...
Sex and Sexuality in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Elaine Jeffreys
May 26, 2009
Elaine Jeffreys explores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding the emergence of new sexual behaviours, and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in the People's Republic of China. Commissioned from Western and mainland Chinese scholars of ...
Translocal China: Linkages, Identities and the Re-imagining of Space
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Oakes, Louisa Schein
September 25, 2006
Inter-disciplinary in approach, this collection of essays explores China’s reform era development within the concept of translocality. A key element of spatial change in today’s China has been the unprecedented geographic mobility of millions of labour migrants, tourists, brides, entrepreneurs, and...
Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Yingjie Guo
December 19, 2003
In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to the state rather than identification with the nation. Yet, since 1989, both the official configuration of the nation and the ...
Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
1st Edition
By Xiaowei Zang
December 18, 2003
Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By studying over one and a half thousand top political Chinese leaders, this book seeks to answer these questions and, as a result, defines how Chinese ...
Manager Empowerment in China: Political Implications of Rural Industrialisation in the Reform Era
1st Edition
By Ray Yep
May 16, 2003
Institutional changes in rural China caused by the economic reforms of the post-Mao era have led to a new pattern of state-society interaction in the rural polity. Central to this is the spectacular rise of a group of managerial elites. Contrary to economic predictors, this has been accompanied by ...
The Democratisation of China
1st Edition
By Baogang He
November 01, 2002
The events of 1989, culminating in Tiananmen Square, highlighted the extent to which democratic ideals had taken root in China. Baogang He traces and evaluates the political discourse of democracy in contemporary China, identifying the three main competing models of democratization that dominate ...
The Chinese Legal System: Globalization and Local Legal Culture
1st Edition
By Pitman B. Potter
August 24, 2001
The legal system of the People's Republic of China has seen significant changes since legal reforms began in 1978. At the end of the second decade of legal reform, law-making and institution-building have reached impressive levels. Understanding the operation and possible futures of law in the ...