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1. Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System

   Unravelling the Myth

   By Victor Zheng

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
2. China, Oil and Global Politics

   By Philip Andrews-Speed, Roland Dannreuther

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour....

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
3. Politics in China since 1949

   Legitimizing Authoritarian Rule

   By Robert Weatherley

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the victory of the 1949 revolution the incumbency of the Chinese Communist Party has been characterized by an almost relentless struggle to legitimize its monopoly on political power. During the Mao era, attempts to derive legitimacy focused primarily on mass participation in political...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Human Resource Management in Chinese Multinationals

   Edited by Jie Shen, Vincent Edwards

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The authors explore the degree to which Chinese multinationals have a distinctive 'Chinese' approach to human resource management, in the same way as large Japanese companies are widely regarded as having a special Japanese approach. Based on extensive original research in the subsidiaries of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. Sars

   Reception and Interpretation in Three Chinese Cities

   Edited by Deborah Davis, Helen F. Siu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   SARS (Acute Respiratory Syndrome) first presented itself to the global medical community as a case of atypical pneumonia in one small Chinese village in November 2002. Three months later the mysterious illness rapidly spread and appeared in Vietnam, Hong Kong, Toronto and then Singapore. The high...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Law and Fair Work in China

   By Sean Cooney, Sarah Biddulph, Ying Zhu

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   China’s economic reforms have brought the country both major international clout and widespread domestic prosperity. At the same time, the reforms have led to significant social upheaval, particularly manifest in labour relations. Each year, several thousand disputes break out over working...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Chinese Corporatist State

   Adaption, Survival and Resistance

   Edited by Jennifer Y.J. Hsu, Reza Hasmath

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The modern Chinese state has traditionally affected every major aspect of domestic society. With the growing liberalization of the economy, coupled with increasingly complex social issues, there is a belief that the state is retreating from an array of social problems from health to the environment...

   Published December 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Politics of China's Accession to the World Trade Organization

   The Dragon Goes Global

   By Hui Feng

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Grounded on a series of first-hand interviews with Chinese government officials, this book examines China’s accession to the World Trade Organization, providing an ‘inside’ look at Chinese WTO accession negotiations. Presenting a systematic political economy model in analyzing Beijing’s...

   Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge
9. The Middle Class in Neoliberal China

   Governing Risk, Life-Building, and Themed Spaces

   By Hai Ren

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Since the late 1970s, China’s move towards neoliberalism has made it not only one of the world’s fastest growing economies, but also one of the most polarised states. This economic, social and political transformation has led to the emergence of a new Chinese middle class, and understanding the...

   Published October 15th 2012 by Routledge
10. Sinologism

    An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism

    By Ming Dong Gu

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Why, for centuries, have the West and the world continuously produced China knowledge that deviates from Chinese realities? Why, since the mid-nineteenth century, have Chinese intellectuals oscillated between commendation and condemnation of their own culture, and between fetishization and...

    Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge