Book Series
Routledge Contemporary China Series
New & Published Titles:
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Cannibalizations of the Canon
Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46880-0 (Routledge)
Rent Seeking in China
In China, rent seeking has been linked to the idea of the local developmental state in which rapid economic development is explained in terms of…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46770-4 (Routledge)
China's Energy Geopolitics
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization and Central Asia
China’s need for energy has become a driving factor in contemporary world politics and a precondition for sustaining China’s continuing high economic growth. Accordingly, Chinese… read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45690-6 (Routledge)
Institutional Balancing in the Asia Pacific
Economic interdependence and China's rise
This book examines the strategic interactions among China, the United States, Japan, and Southeast Asian States in the context of China’s rise and globalization after…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46952-4 (Routledge)
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Paying for Progress in China
Public Finance, Human Welfare and Changing Patterns of Inequality
China’s stunning record of economic development since the 1970s has been marred by an increasingly obvious gap between the country’s ‘haves’ and its ‘have-nots’. While…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48779-5 (Routledge)
Chinese Kinship
Contemporary Anthropological Perspectives
The essays in this volume present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. The collection draws particular attention to…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-45697-5 (Routledge)
Politics and Government in Hong Kong
Crisis under Chinese sovereignty
This book examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing in particular on the anti-government mass protests and…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46940-1 (Routledge)
US-China Relations
China policy on Capitol Hill
With China’s rapid ascendance to great power status, the U.S.-China relationship has become one of the most important international relationships in the world today. This…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77688-2 (Routledge)
Regime Legitimacy in Contemporary China
Institutional change and stability
Using in-depth case studies of a wide-range of political, social and economic reforms in contemporary China this volume sheds light on the significance and consequences…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46664-6 (Routledge)
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Hong Kong, China
Learning to belong to a nation
The idea of ‘national identity’ is an ambiguous one for Hong Kong. Returned to the national embrace of China on 1 July 1997 after 150…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48013-0 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China: Serving the People
Edited by Jonathan Schwartz, Shawn Shieh
To be published June 15th 2009
The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang
By Xiaobo Su, Peggy Teo
To be published June 15th 2009
Developing China: Land, Politics and Social Conditions
By George C.S. Lin
To be published May 18th 2009
China, Xinjiang and Central Asia: History, Transition and Crossborder Interaction into the 21st Century
Edited by Colin Mackerras, Michael Clarke
To be published April 2nd 2009
Intellectual Property Rights in China: Politics of Piracy, Trade and Protection
By Gordon C.K Cheung
To be published March 20th 2009
China-US Relations Transformed: Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
Edited by Suisheng Zhao
To be published January 30th 2009
