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.
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 ...
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? ...
China and the West: Crossroads of Civilisation
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
October 01, 2018
Capitalist globalisation since the 1980s has produced immense benefits in terms of technical progress, poverty reduction and welfare improvement. However, it has been accompanied by profound contradictions, including ecological destruction, global warming, inequality, concentration of business ...
Sustaining China's Economic Growth in the Twenty-first Century
1st Edition
Edited
By Xiaming Liu, Shujie Yao
August 23, 2018
Economic growth in China has been exceptionally strong in recent decades, but the country still faces enormous economic problems, including huge poverty, uneven regional development, the problems associated with strengthening capital formation, modernising and making more productive the very large ...
The Employment Impact of China's WTO Accession
1st Edition
By A. S. Bhalla, Shufang Qiu, S. Qiu
August 23, 2018
The book explores the macroeconomic and sectoral employment implications (in agriculture, industry and services) of China's World Trade Organisation accession. It argues that while short-run employment losses may occur, in the longer term China will be able to generate additional employment ...
China in the Wake of Asia's Financial Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Wang Mengkui
August 14, 2018
This book examines China’s response to the Asian financial crisis of 1997, both in its immediate aftermath and in the years since. The crisis caused turmoil throughout Asia’s economies, and precipitated wholesale reform of economic and financial policies and institutions across the region. As one ...
China's Economic Growth: A Miracle with Chinese Characteristics
1st Edition
By Yanrui Wu
August 14, 2018
The current growth of the Chinese economy is of immense importance for the global economy. This book outlines the main characteristics of Chinese economic growth over the last two decades, and investigates in detail the key determinants of growth, especially capital formation and productivity ...