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.
Chinese Private Manufacturing Firms: The Challenges of Global Competition
1st Edition
By Xiao Chen
September 30, 2021
Since the beginning of China’s economic reform in 1978, private manufacturing firms have played an indispensable role in, and have made a remarkable contribution to, the country’s economic development. This book, based on extensive original research, explores the current development challenges for ...
The Silk Road and the Political Economy of the Mongol Empire
1st Edition
By Prajakti Kalra
September 30, 2021
The growing importance of Central and Inner Asia and the Silk Road is much discussed at present. This book compares the nature of present day networks in these regions with the patterns of similar connections which existed at the time of the Mongol Empire in the thirteenth century and its successor...
How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
1st Edition
By Isabella M. Weber
May 27, 2021
China has become deeply integrated into the world economy. Yet, gradual marketization has facilitated the country’s rise without leading to its wholesale assimilation to global neoliberalism. This book uncovers the fierce contest about economic reforms that shaped China’s path. In the first ...
Multinationals, Global Value Chains and Governance: The Mechanics of Power in Inter-firm Relations
1st Edition
By Peter Hertenstein
March 31, 2021
This book uses the examples of local supply firms in China and Brazil and their connections to the global automotive industry to explore the nature of current global value chains. It argues that lead firms make use of product architecture to globalize their procurement and supply chain management ...
The Evolution of China's Banking System, 1993–2017
1st Edition
By Guy Williams
August 14, 2020
This book traces the development of China’s banking system through the first 25 years of China’s socialist market economy up to the present. It examines how China’s leaders have chosen their own path for reforming and regulating the banking sector and shows how this approach has differed ...
Wind Power in China: Ambiguous Winds of Change in China's Energy Market
1st Edition
By Julia Kirch Kirkegaard
June 30, 2020
Whilst China’s growing economy is widely regarded as being responsible for severe environmental degradation and a high reliance on energy from fossil fuels, China is emerging as a potential leader in new green energy technologies. Outlining the extraordinary growth in China’s wind power capacity ...
China's Rural Areas: Building a Moderately Prosperous Society
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
December 12, 2019
The prosperity of China’s people has advanced very much in recent decades. However, in many respects China is still a developing country, and this is especially true of rural areas where economic progress has not been as marked as in urban areas and where many people still live in relative poverty....
Reforming China's Healthcare System
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
December 12, 2019
Although China’s new healthcare reform, launched in 2009, has achieved remarkable results in improving China’s medical and healthcare system, it is recognised that there is still room for further improvement. This is especially important as China’s population ages, the prevalence of chronic ...
The Political Economy of Banking Governance in China
1st Edition
By Xuming Yang
December 12, 2019
Chinese state banks, which were considered technically insolvent in the 1990s, are at present among the largest and most important banks in the world. This book, based on the author’s research and also on his extensive experience of working in Chinese banks, explores how Chinese banks’ technical ...
The Chinese Coal Industry: An Economic History
1st Edition
By Elspeth Thomson
June 10, 2019
The coal industry has been and continues to be of critical importance for China's economic modernization. With its huge labour force, country-wide infrastructure, and vital strategic importance for the economy, the industry presents special problems for reformers, and epitomises the problems of ...
Governing the Commons in China
1st Edition
By Yan Zhang
January 03, 2019
The idea of 'the commons' is a long-standing concept in the English-speaking world and in English law. A similar concept occurs in China. How different from or similar to the English idea of ‘the commons’ is the idea in China; and how is the concept applied? This book explores this important ...
The Economic Cycle and the Growth of the Chinese Economy
1st Edition
By Li Jianwei
December 19, 2018
The nature of the economic cycle has been a long-standing problem for economists, given much attention by especially Malthus, Marx and Keynes. Key questions include: What are the causes of the economic cycle? Are the causes endogenous or exogenous? and Why is the economic cycle irregular? ...