Book Series
Routledge Studies on China in Transition
New & Published Titles:
State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China
The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched
In the 1990s, the Chinese government launched an unprecedented reform of state enterprises, putting tens of millions of people out of work. This empirically rich…
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-36888-9 (Routledge)
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Transforming Rural China
How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China
It is often assumed that privatization leads to profit, and that well-delineated property rights and a strong private sector will help boost an economy. This… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-19672-7 (Routledge)
China's Scientific Elite
China's Scientific Elite is a study of those scientists holding China's highest academic honour - membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Having carried out… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32757-2 (Routledge)
China, Sex and Prostitution
China, Sex and Prostitution is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-31863-1 (Routledge)
China's Rational Entrepreneurs
The Development of the New Private Sector
The ability of China's entrepreneurs to establish firms in the midst of a strangling bureaucratic system is a topic which demands attention not least because… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32822-7 (Routledge)
The Development of China's Stockmarket, 1984-2002
Equity Politics and Market Institutions
As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market…
read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32466-3 (Routledge)
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Chinese Intellectuals Between State and Market
This edited volume describes the intellectual world that developed in China in the last decade of the twentieth century. How, as China's economy changed from… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32597-4 (Routledge)
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Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary China
In the vast majority of literature on 'Chinese nationalism' the distinction between nation and state is rarely made, consequently nationalism usually appears as loyalty to… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32264-5 (Routledge)
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Elite Dualism and Leadership Selection in China
Who are the top political leaders in China? What are the major criteria in elite recruitment? How is job promotion in high politics determined? By…
read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32234-8 (Routledge)
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Manager Empowerment in China
Political Implications of Rural Industrialisation in the Reform Era
Institutional changes in rural China caused by the economic reforms of the post-Mao era have led to a new pattern of state-society interaction in the… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-28295-6 (Routledge)
Series Details:
The spectacular economic development of China has raised many questions about its future. China in Transition participates in the intellectual developments by focusing on social, political and cultural change in the China of the 1990s and beyond. Drawing on new research from scholars in Asia, Australia, North America and Europe, this series is invaluable in monitoring reform and interpreting the consequences for China, its neighbours and the West.
Forthcoming Titles:
China's Cotton Industry: Economic Transformation and State Capacity
By Björn Alpermann
To be published March 4th 2010
Serious Crime in China: Policing and Politics
By Susan Trevaskes
To be published June 1st 2010
The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
By Jane Duckett
To be published June 15th 2010