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China Policy Series

Series Editor: Zheng Yongnian

With the rise of China and its impact on the world, interest in China has increased drastically in recent years. This series focuses on policy-oriented research and scholarly works with policy implications, on all aspects of contemporary Chinese economy, politics, society, environment, journalism and cultures. It also covers China’s foreign relations with major international organizations such as the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and World Bank, and major powers such as the United States, European Union (and its member states), Japan and others.

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1-10 of 31 results in China Policy Series

  1. New Dynamics in Cross-Taiwan Strait Relations

    How Far Can the Rapprochement Go?

    Edited by Weixing Hu

    Series: China Policy Series

    Relations between mainland China and Taiwan have improved markedly in recent years, giving rise to the key question, How far can the current rapprochement go? This book focuses on how mainland China-Taiwan relations are likely to develop in future. It considers economic relations, including the...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Governing Health in Contemporary China

    By Yanzhong Huang

    Series: China Policy Series

    The lack of significant improvement in people’s health status and other mounting health challenges in China raise a puzzling question about the country’s internal transition: why did the reform-induced dynamics produce an economic miracle, but fail to reproduce the success Mao had achieved in the...

    Published November 11th 2012 by Routledge

  3. The Rise of Think Tanks in China

    By Xufeng Zhu

    Series: China Policy Series

    Despite continuing criticism of the Chinese authoritarian political system, the range of participants in the decision-making process has widened, with different social actors now playing an increasingly important role in the Chinese policymaking process. Accordingly, the role of think tanks in the...

    Published September 17th 2012 by Routledge

  4. China's Internal and International Migration

    Edited by Li Peilin, Laurence Roulleau-Berger

    Series: China Policy Series

    One consequence of China’s economic growth has been a massive increase in migration, both internal and external. Within China millions of rural workers have migrated to the cities. Outside China, many Chinese have migrated to other parts of the world, their remittances home often having a...

    Published August 12th 2012 by Routledge

  5. China's Challenges to Human Security

    Foreign Relations and Global Implications

    Edited by Guoguang Wu

    Series: China Policy Series

    This book looks at human security in China’s foreign relations. It discusses the concept and theory of human security, and their implications for China. The book goes on to analyse environmental security issues, including climate change and water resources, as well as looking at issues from an...

    Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Chinese Society - Change and Transformation

    Edited by Li Peilin

    Series: China Policy Series

    There is growing interest in social transformation in contemporary China, with much work published on the subject. This book is different from other books in that it presents an overview of the work of Chinese sociologists on how Chinese society is changing. It reports on a great deal of original...

    Published July 4th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Zhao Ziyang and China's Political Future

    Edited by Guoguang Wu, Helen Lansdowne

    Series: China Policy Series

    What legacies have previous reformers like Zhao Ziyang left to today’s China? Does China have feasible political alternatives to today’s repressive ‘market Leninism’ and corrupt ‘state capitalism’? Does Zhao’s legacy indicate an alternative to the past and for the future? For those who are...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Power and Sustainability of the Chinese State

    Edited by Keun Lee, Joon-Han Kim, Wing Thye Woo

    Series: China Policy Series

    Since the start of the 21st century China has risen to the status of an important world power. This book examines Chinese power, focusing in particular, although not exclusively, on its economic capabilities, and considering how this is likely to develop in the future. It provides a detailed...

    Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge

  9. China's Climate Policy

    By Gang Chen

    Series: China Policy Series

    To understand China’s climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the...

    Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Hainan - State, Society, and Business in a Chinese Province

    By Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard

    Series: China Policy Series

    This book examines the complex relationship between the state, society and business in China, focusing on the experience of the island province of Hainan. This island, for many years a provincial backwater, was given provincial rank in 1988 and became the testing ground for experiments of an...

    Published April 15th 2012 by Routledge

Forthcoming Books

  1. The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre
    Edited by Jean-Philippe Béja
    To Be Published March 10th 2013
  2. China and the European Union
    Edited by Lisheng Dong, Zhengxu Wang, Henk Dekker
    To Be Published March 17th 2013
  3. China and the International System: Becoming a World Power
    Edited by Xiaoming Huang, Robert Patman
    To Be Published March 24th 2013
  4. China's Social Development and Policy: Into the next stage?
    Edited by Litao Zhao
    To Be Published June 11th 2013
  5. E-Government in China: Technology, Power and Local Government Reform
    By Jesper Schlæger
    To Be Published July 9th 2013
  6. Social Protest in Contemporary China
    By Yanqi Tong, Shaohua Lei
    To Be Published August 30th 2013
  7. China’s Evolving Industrial Policies and Economic Restructuring
    Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Sarah Tong
    To Be Published October 30th 2013
  8. Social and Political Activism in China: How Citizen Activists are Silently Shaping China's Democracy
    By Andreas Fulda
    To Be Published November 29th 2013
  9. Religious Revival in Ethnic Areas of China
    Edited by Liang Yongjia
    To Be Published November 29th 2013
  10. Government Reform and Governance in China's Local State
    By Qingshan Tan
    To Be Published December 30th 2013

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