Chinese Studies Books

New and Published Books

1. Whither Chinese HRM?

   Paradigms, Models and Theories

   Edited by Malcolm Warner

   This symposium explores Chinese people-management as an academic subject, looking at where it is currently going and the likely direction of its progress. After the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping in 1978, China saw the introduction of Human Resource Management (HRM). This book...

   Published April 4th 2013 by Routledge
2. China and the First Vietnam War, 1947-54

   By Laura M. Calkins

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia

   This book charts the development of the First Vietnam War – the war between the Vietnamese Communists (the Viet Minh) and the French colonial power – considering especially how relations between the Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists had a profound impact on the course of the war. It shows how...

   Published April 2nd 2013 by Routledge
3. Feminism and Socialism in China

   By Elisabeth Croll

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards...

   Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
4. Elites and Governance in China

   Edited by Xiaowei Zang, Chien-wen Kou

   Series: Routledge Studies on China in Transition

   This book reveals the complex relationship between elite perceptions and behaviour, and governance, in China. It moves away from existing scholarship by focusing on functionaries, grass-roots elites, leading intellectuals, and opinion-makers in China and by looking beyond the top leadership, makes...

   Published March 28th 2013 by Routledge
5. Religion and the Subtle Body in Asia and the West

   Between Mind and Body

   Edited by Geoffrey Samuel, Jay Johnston

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion and Philosophy

   Subtle-body practices are found particularly in Indian, Indo-Tibetan and East Asian societies, but have become increasingly familiar in Western societies, especially through the various healing and yogic techniques and exercises associated with them. This book explores subtle-body practices from a...

   Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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 24th 2013 by Routledge
7. 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
8. Present Day Political Organization of China

   By H.S. Brunnert, V.V. Hagelstrom

   Originally published in 1910, this work presents a fascinating insight into the government and administration of the China of the day. The period was one of immense change as China's leaders turned the nation towards modernity. As student interpreters to the Imperial Russian Legation, the authors...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
9. Emptiness Appraised

   A Critical Study of Nagarjuna's Philosophy

   By David F. Burton

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism

   Emptiness means that all entities are empty of, or lack, inherent existence - entities have a merely conceptual, constructed existence. Though Nagarjuna advocates the Middle Way, his philosophy of emptiness nevertheless entails nihilism, and his critiques of the Nyaya theory of knowledge are shown...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
10. Remaking Buddhism for Medieval Nepal

    The Fifteenth-Century Reformation of Newar Buddhism

    By Will Tuladhar-Douglas

    Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism - Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies

    Will Tuladhar-Douglas sheds new light on an important branch of Mahayana Buddhism and establishes the existence, character and causes of a renaissance of Buddhism in the fifteenth century in the Kathmandu Valley of Nepal. He provides the basis for the historical study of Newar Buddhism as...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge