Routledge Contemporary China Series

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1. Islam and China's Hong Kong

   Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

   By Wai-Yip Ho

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
2. Hong Kong's Tortuous Democratization

   A Comparative Analysis

   By Ming Sing

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book raises interesting questions about the process of democratization in Hong Kong. It asks why democracy has been so long delayed when Hong Kong's level of socio-economic development has become so high. It relates democratization in Hong Kong to wider studies of the democratization process...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Sustainable Development in China

   Edited by Curtis Andressen, A.R. Mubarak, Xiaoyi Wang

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Over the past three decades, China’s economic structure, direction and international presence have undergone a dramatic transformation. This rapid rise and China’s enormous success in economic terms has created new challenges, and this book examines how the Chinese economy can continue to flourish,...

   Published April 17th 2013 by Routledge
4. Consumer-Citizens of China

   The Role of Foreign Brands in the Imagined Future China

   By Kelly Tian, Lily Dong

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book presents a comprehensive examination of Chinese consumer behaviour and challenges the previously dichotomous interpretation of the consumption of Western and non-Western brands in China. The dominant position is that Chinese consumers are driven by a desire to imitate the lifestyles of...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
5. China's One-Child Policy and Multiple Caregiving

   Raising Little Suns in Xiamen

   By Esther Goh

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book explores the effects of China’s one child policy on modern Chinese families. It is widely thought that such a policy has contributed to the creation of a generation of little emperors or little suns spoiled by their parents and by the grandparents who have been recruited to care for the...

   Published April 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution

   The Political Impact of Market

   By Lance Gore

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   The Chinese Communist Party and China’s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are largely mired in the assumption that the free...

   Published April 11th 2013 by Routledge
7. Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China

   Becoming a 'Modern' Man

   By Xiaodong Lin

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   Rural-urban migration within China has transformed and reshaped rural people’s lives during the past few decades, and has been one of the most visible phenomena of the economic reforms enacted since the late 1970s. Whilst Feminist scholars have addressed rural women’s experience of struggle and...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China

   Designing a National Emissions Trading System

   By Bo Miao

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   As the world's biggest polluter, the environmental challenges that China faces in controlling its airborne emissions are crucial, not only to its own population in terms of tackling the severe domestic air pollution, but also to the planet as it faces calls from the international community to...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Religion in Contemporary China

    Revitalization and Innovation

    Edited by Adam Yuet Chau

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    Before the modernist transformations of the twentieth century, China had one of the richest and most diverse religious cultures in the world. The radical anti-traditionalist policies of both the Republican and Communist regimes as well as other socio-historical factors posed formidable challenges...

    Published March 10th 2013 by Routledge