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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.

89 Series Titles


China's New Urbanization Strategy

China's New Urbanization Strategy

1st Edition

By China Development Research Foundation
January 22, 2018

Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China’s 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration ...

China's Road to Peaceful Rise Observations on its Cause, Basis, Connotation and Prospect

China's Road to Peaceful Rise: Observations on its Cause, Basis, Connotation and Prospect

1st Edition

By Zheng Bijian
January 22, 2018

Zheng Bijian has been one of the most influential thinkers and policy formulators in China during its reform period.  In the early 1990s he worked with Deng Xiaoping collating and publishing Deng’s speeches and as vice president of the Party School gave top priority to ensuring that members of...

China's WTO Accession Reassessed

China's WTO Accession Reassessed

1st Edition

Edited By Wang Luolin
January 22, 2018

China's accession to the World Trade Organisation in 2001 was a highly significant event both for China and for the wider world. This book argues that, although at the time some people doubted the likely benefits, China's WTO accession has been highly successful. It discusses how China has abided ...

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Guo Shuqing

Chinese Economists on Economic Reform - Collected Works of Guo Shuqing

1st Edition

By China Development Research Foundation, The China Development Research Foundation
January 22, 2018

China Development Research Foundation is one the leading economic think tanks in China, providing a base where many leading Chinese economists have developed the details of Chinese economic reform. This book is the second of a series which makes available to an English-speaking audience the work of...

Demographic Developments in China

Demographic Developments in China

1st Edition

By China Development Research Foundation
January 22, 2018

This book assesses current developments in China’s demography, and discusses the changes which should be implemented to bring policy into line with the current demographic situation. It argues that population planning, which was introduced in the early years of the People’s Republic alongside ...

China's Centralized Industrial Order Industrial Reform and the Rise of Centrally Controlled Big Business

China's Centralized Industrial Order: Industrial Reform and the Rise of Centrally Controlled Big Business

1st Edition

By Chen Li
October 12, 2017

This book is about the political economy of China’s industrial reform and the rise of a group of Chinese big businesses under the Communist Party and the central state’s control. It examines the origins, evolution and institutional configuration of this centralized system in governing the ‘...

A New Development Model and China's Future

A New Development Model and China's Future

1st Edition

By Deng Yingtao
May 10, 2017

The need for China to find a new, environmentally sustainable development path is accepted widely among Chinese scholars and policy makers. This book makes available for the first time to an English–speaking audience Deng Yingtao's ground-breaking book New Development Model and China’s Future. ...

US-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century A Question of Trust

US-China Relations in the Twenty-First Century: A Question of Trust

1st Edition

By Michael Tai
May 10, 2017

The relationship between the United States and China will be of critical importance to the world throughout the twenty-first century. In the West China’s rise is often portrayed as a threat and China seen in negative terms. This book explores the dynamics of this crucial relationship. It looks in ...

Understanding China The Silk Road and the Communist Manifesto

Understanding China: The Silk Road and the Communist Manifesto

1st Edition

By Peter Nolan
February 16, 2017

If the West wishes to understand China better, it needs to appreciate the depth of thought and range of debate that is taking place within the Chinese political system. China is entering a new and complicated phase in its development. From a minnow in the 1970s it has become a mighty player on the ...

Financial Sector Reform and the International Integration of China

Financial Sector Reform and the International Integration of China

1st Edition

Edited By Zhongmin Wu
November 24, 2016

China's economy, which continues to grow rapidly, is having an ever greater impact on the rest of the world. This impact is likely to be felt increasingly in the financial sector where China's foreign currency reserves, fuelled by the huge trade surplus, are a very significant factor in world ...

China in the World Economy

China in the World Economy

1st Edition

Edited By Zhongmin Wu
July 12, 2016

China's economy continues to grow at a great rate, with important consequences for China's society and environment, as well as for the wider world economy. Reforms are being undertaken in many areas within China, both to encourage continued economic growth and also to mitigate the adverse effects ...

China's Economic Dynamics A Beijing Consensus in the making?

China's Economic Dynamics: A Beijing Consensus in the making?

1st Edition

Edited By Jun Li, Liming Wang
June 28, 2016

Although Chinese economic growth continues strong, and although China coped very well with the recent global crisis, the Chinese economy faces many challenges, including how to sustain growth, how to rebalance the economy towards more domestic consumption, how to accommodate rising wages, growing ...

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