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 and the West: Crossroads of Civilisation
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
October 12, 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 ...
China's Poor Regions: Rural-Urban Migration, Poverty, Economic Reform and Urbanisation
1st Edition
By Mei Zhang
August 14, 2018
The number of poor people in China is huge, despite recent economic advances. This book investigates the problem of poverty in China's regions, discussing in particular the role of rural-urban migration in reducing poverty. It surveys the distribution and characteristics of poverty, examines ...
Good Governance in China - A Way Towards Social Harmony: Case Studies by China’s Rising Leaders
1st Edition
Edited
By Wang Mengkui
August 14, 2018
Good governance is necessary for effective public administration and delivery of public goods and services. This is an important issue for all countries, but in particular for rapidly developing countries such as China where reform of governance and public administration is a key element of the ...
Being Middle Class in China: Identity, Attitudes and Behaviour
1st Edition
By Ying Miao
April 20, 2018
Many studies of the Chinese middle class focus on defining it and viewing its significance for economic development and its potential for sociopolitical modernisation. This book goes beyond such objective approaches and considers middle class people’s subjective understanding and diverse ...
Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Chen Xiwen
1st Edition
Edited
By China Development Research Foundation, Chen Xiwen
April 20, 2018
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, ...
Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Du Runsheng
1st Edition
Edited
By China Development Research Foundation, Du Runsheng
April 20, 2018
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, ...
Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Lou Jiwei
1st Edition
Edited
By China Development Research Foundation, Lou Jiwei
April 20, 2018
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, ...
Chinese Economists on Economic Reform – Collected Works of Wang Mengkui
1st Edition
Edited
By China Development Research Foundation, Wang Mengkui
April 20, 2018
This book is part of a series which makes available to English-speaking audiences the work of the individual Chinese economists who were the architects of China’s economic reform. The series provides an inside view of China’s economic reform, revealing the thinking of the reformers themselves, ...