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 Global Financial Crisis: A Comparison with Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Pierre Cabestan, Jean-François Di Meglio, Xavier Richet
June 23, 2014
This book examines China’s response to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, and the resulting new status acquired by China within the international economy. It considers the things China did to weather the crisis, discussing the stimulus package put in place by China and how China’s banks coped, ...
Chinese Firms, Global Firms: Industrial Policy in the Age of Globalization
1st Edition
By Peter Nolan
November 12, 2013
China has achieved remarkable, sustained economic growth under the policies of ‘reform and opening up’ put into place since the late 1970s. China’s industrial policies have nurtured a large group of firms with high profits and a high market capitalisation. However, few people in the West can name a...
The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and Blood-Stained Coal
1st Edition
By Tim Wright
September 23, 2013
Coal mining is one of China’s largest industries, and provides an excellent case study through which to consider the broader issues of China’s transition from socialism to capitalism, focussing on the shift to a market economy, the rise of rural industry and the situation of China’s working class....
China's Development Challenges: Economic Vulnerability and Public Sector Reform
1st Edition
By Richard Schiere
July 29, 2013
This book argues that a major potential source of social tension in transition and developing countries is not poverty as such, but vulnerability: that is, the risk of becoming poor. It demonstrates how in China many of the recent reforms to the public sector, such as decentralisation from central ...
Informal Institutions and Rural Development in China
1st Edition
By Biliang Hu
March 22, 2013
Providing an account of the role of informal institutions in Chinese rural development, this book, based on a decade of fieldwork of village life in the Chinese countryside, puts forth a distinctive argument on a very important topic in Chinese economic and social affairs. Focusing in particular on...
Globalization, Competition and Growth in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Jian Chen, Shujie Yao
March 05, 2013
Presenting original work and new thinking on a wide range of important issues, the book explores the current state of globalization, competition and growth in China. China has produced an economic miracle since the late 1970s in its transition from a planned to a market economy. This...
Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China
1st Edition
Edited
By Hiroshi Sato, Shi Li
November 30, 2012
Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on ...
China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Sanders, Simon Denny
May 15, 2012
China has enjoyed heroic growth rates in the last twenty five years of reform and transition, pulling more people out of poverty more quickly than at any other time in human history. Nonetheless these successes have had costs: today China is faced with increasing environmental difficulties and ...
Multinationals, Globalisation and Indigenous Firms in China
1st Edition
By Chunhang Liu
May 15, 2012
This book considers the impact of multinational companies in China on the Chinese economy and on indigenous firms in China. It shows how the global business environment has undergone profound changes since the early 1990s, leading to an explosion of merger and acquisitions activity and consequent ...
The Political Future of Hong Kong: Democracy within communist China
1st Edition
By Kit Poon
May 15, 2012
On July 1st, 2007, Hong Kong celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to the People’s Republic of China, but the past decade has been a bumpy ride for both the Hong Kong people and the central leaders in China. In fact, in 2003 Beijing had already succumbed to public pressure within the fairly...
Global Big Business and the Chinese Brewing Industry
1st Edition
By Yuantao Guo
September 13, 2012
From the 1970s to the 1990s, China implemented a wide array of industrial policies to build up indigenous big business groups in their attempts to ‘catch-up’ with the industries of the developed world. With its entry into the WTO, China is under huge pressure to pursue the market-friendly policies ...
Globalisation, Transition and Development in China: The Case of the Coal Industry
1st Edition
By Rui Huaichuan
September 12, 2012
Based on extensive original research, Globalisation, Transition and Development in China explains China's development strategy and its underlying forces, and the success of this strategy. It examines China's gradualist approach which emphasizes development first and regards transition and...