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Routledge Studies on China in Transition

Series Editor: David SG Goodman

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.

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1-10 of 44 results in Routledge Studies on China in Transition
  1. Tiger Girls

    Women and Enterprise in the People's Republic of China

    By Minglu Chen

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    The existing scholarship on women in China suggests that gender inequality still exists against the background of the country’s reform and opening in recent years. However, the situation of women in enterprise ownership and leadership seems to indicate that despite such notions of disadvantage...

    Published January 16th 2013 by Routledge

  2. State and Laid-Off Workers in Reform China

    The Silence and Collective Action of the Retrenched

    By Yongshun Cai

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    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 study calls on comprehensive surveys and interviews, combining quantitative data with qualitative in its examination of the variation in...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge

  3. China's Rational Entrepreneurs

    The Development of the New Private Sector

    By Barbara Krug

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    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 it forms the basis of China's economic development. Combining theoretical approaches with extensive fieldwork, China's Rational Entrepreneurs...

    Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

  4. International Aid and China's Environment

    Taming the Yellow Dragon

    By Katherine Morton

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Rapid economic growth in the world's most populous nation is leading to widespread soil erosion, desertification, deforestation and the depletion of vital natural resources. The scale and severity of environmental problems in China now threaten the economic and social foundations of its...

    Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge

  5. Unequal China

    The political economy and cultural politics of inequality

    Edited by Wanning Sun, Yingjie Guo

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Economic development and a dramatic improvement in living standards in many parts of the People’s Republic of China during the past three decades of economic reforms have been hailed by the Chinese Communist Party and many commentators in the international arena as the most spectacular achievements...

    Published October 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  6. Transforming Rural China

    How Local Institutions Shape Property Rights in China

    By Chih-Jou Jay Chen

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    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 book investigates the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, finding that distinction between the public and the private...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

  7. China's Scientific Elite

    By Cong Cao

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    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 extensive systematic data collection of CAS members Cao examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community and...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

  8. China, Sex and Prostitution

    By Elaine Jeffreys

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    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 in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police...

    Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Prostitution Scandals in China

    Policing, Media and Society

    By Elaine Jeffreys

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    Prostitution Scandals in China presents an examination of media coverage of prostitution-related scandals in contemporary China. It demonstrates that the subject of prostitution is not only widely debated, but also that these public discussions have ramifications for some of the key social, legal...

    Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge

  10. The Chinese State in Transition

    Processes and contests in local China

    Edited by Linda Chelan Li

    Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

    One of the more commonly and widely held beliefs outside the People’s Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change The attention of the outside world focuses inevitably on Beijing and national level politics. Nonetheless, it may actually...

    Published February 26th 2012 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. Elites and Governance in China
    Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chien-Wen Kou
    To Be Published March 26th 2013
  2. Policing Serious Crime in China: From 'Strike Hard' to 'Kill Fewer'
    By Susan Trevaskes
    To Be Published April 14th 2013
  3. The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment
    By Jane Duckett
    To Be Published April 14th 2013
  4. Choosing China's Leaders
    Edited by Chien-Wen Kou, Xiaowei Zang
    To Be Published August 29th 2013
  5. Remaking Development Models in Urban China: Beyond New Regionalism, Beyond Global Production
    By Yehua Dennis Wei
    To Be Published September 14th 2013

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