Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
About the Book Series
The primary aim of this series is to publish original, high quality, research-level work, by both new and established scholars in the West and East, on all aspects of the Chinese economy, including studies of business and economic history. Works of synthesis, reference books and edited collections will also be considered. Submissions from prospective authors are welcomed.
China's Aging Population: Development and Policy Options
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
December 26, 2025
This book provides a systematic study of the challenges of aging in China and of the measures being taken, planned, and still needed to cope with the challenges. It highlights that the number of people aged 65 or above is growing and that the growth will accelerate—from 176 million people ...
China’s Urbanization in the New Round of Technological Revolution, 2020-2050: Impact, Prospect and Strategy
1st Edition
By Wang Wei, Deng Yusong, Niu Sanyuan, Wang Ruimin, Shao Ting, Zhao Yong, Liu Xin
October 27, 2025
Based on a major research project undertaken by a team at the Institute of Market Economy, Development Research Center of the State Council of China, a project which included extensive survey research, and involved also many international scholars including researchers at the World Economic Forum ...
China, Hong Kong and the West: The World Turned Upside Down
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
September 30, 2025
This book analyses Hong Kong’s history from a long-run perspective. It examines Britain’s relationship with the city in the context of Hong Kong’s location within the Pearl River Delta and its strategic position within East Asia. Britain’s interaction with Hong Kong commenced in the 1830s. Britain ...
Developing Commercial Health Insurance During the 14th Five-Year Plan Period
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
September 24, 2025
This book analyses the role of commercial health insurance in China during the 14th Five‑Year Plan period. Including case studies and the results of large‑scale surveys, this book examines the changes in the nature of the demand for commercial insurance and how its development could proceed in an ...
America’s Cold War against China: Destined to Fail
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
September 09, 2024
This book discusses how the USA has launched a new cold war against China. Showing how this New Cold War can only be fully understood by analysing the long-run history of the East and the West, and the fundamental differences between the Old and the New Cold Wars, this book outlines how the New ...
Medicines in China’s National Health Insurance System
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
May 27, 2024
This book presents the findings of systematic research into the healthcare medicine management policies of China. In-depth comprehensive research has been carried out, targeting multiple issues of particular importance in healthcare medicine management, such as the purchasing, pricing, payment, ...
Thirty Years of China's Reform
1st Edition
Edited
By Wang Mengkui
April 15, 2024
This book presents a survey of China's reforms of the last thirty years, providing an invaluable assessment of the reforms from the perspective of experts within China, including an appraisal of how the reforms have been, what the consequences have been, and how far the reforms have been successful....
Industrial Innovation in China: The Factors Determining Success or Failure
1st Edition
By Zhenyu Fu
May 31, 2023
This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry. Considering the large and important Chinese mining industry in detail, it argues that innovation is key for success in all industries, not just new "tech" industries. It ...
China in the Asian Financial Crisis
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
January 09, 2023
The widely held view of the Asian Financial Crisis is that it had no substantial impact on China. In fact, the country was far more vulnerable than most people realized, due to the high possibility of financial contagion entering the system from Hong Kong through Guangdong province. This book ...
China's Commercial Health Insurance
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
June 13, 2022
This book examines the financing of China’s health system, argues that present arrangements are not adequate and proposes an increased role for commercial health insurance as a way of overcoming the difficulties. Highlighting that China’s present social medical insurance system can only cover basic...
Finance and the Real Economy: China and the West since the Asian Financial Crisis
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
May 06, 2022
The different approach taken by China and the West towards finance and the real economy rests upon philosophical foundations that have diverged fundamentally since the Ancient World. Since the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997–98 a tremendous transformation has taken place in the financial systems in ...
China's Sustainable Use of Natural Resources
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
December 13, 2021
This book examines China’s resource endowment and the country’s current exploitation and use of resources and analyzes the main challenges and potential opportunities facing the country. It then discusses how to improve the efficiency with which resources are used by taking a ‘full-life-cycle’ ...