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's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Sanders, Chen Yang
October 10, 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
October 10, 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
October 10, 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 10, 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 10, 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...
Economic Growth, Income Distribution and Poverty Reduction in Contemporary China
1st Edition
By Shujie Yao
July 26, 2012
China has experienced over a quarter century of rapid economic growth, which has had a phenomenal impact on the global economy. Entering into the twenty-first century implies that China has begun a new phase of economic and social development. Yao reviews the economic development history ...
China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979: Grain, Trade and Diplomacy
1st Edition
By Chad Mitcham
July 11, 2012
During the period 1949 to 1979, communist China was officially pursuing a policy of self-sufficiency, and the United States and its allies were officially implementing a trade embargo against communist China. However, this book, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that China was ...
The Chinese Banking Industry: Lessons from History for Today's Challenges
1st Edition
By Yuanyuan Peng
April 17, 2012
This book provides detailed systematic micro-level analysis of the historical development of the Chinese banking industry, focusing in particular on the development of the Bank of China (BOC) in the period 1905 to 1949. Banking reform is a key area of China’s economic transformation, and this book...
China's Industrial Policies and the Global Business Revolution: The Case of the Domestic Appliance Industry
1st Edition
By Ling Liu
November 25, 2011
As China has blended market reforms with comprehensive industrial policies, most research has focused on the national government's strategies for economic growth. However, one of the unique characteristics of industrial policy in China is that it involves government intervention at all levels,...
Economic Convergence in Greater China: Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan
1st Edition
By Chun Kwok Lei, Shujie Yao
April 14, 2011
Although China's economy has grown very rapidly in recent decades, there are still very large differences between the economy of mainland China and the economies of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. For example, per capita income in Hong Kong is many, many times higher than per capita income in ...
Constructing a Social Welfare System for All in China
1st Edition
By China Development Research Foundation
April 13, 2011
China Development Research Foundation is one of the leading economic think tanks in China, where many of the details of China’s economic reform have been formulated. Its work and publications therefore provide great insights into what the Chinese themselves think about economic reform and how it ...
Managers and Mandarins in Contemporary China: The Building of an International Business
1st Edition
By Tang Jie
June 18, 2010
This book explores the question as to whether the way in which Chinese management handles conflict is fundamentally different from elsewhere or much the same. It does so by examining in detail an international joint venture construction project, where managers rooted in contrasting business systems...