Chinese Studies Books
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You are currently browsing 1–10 of 753 new and published books in the subject of Chinese Studies — sorted by publish date from newer books to older books.
For books that are not yet published; please browse forthcoming books.
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Historical perspectives
The Politicisation of Sport in Modern China: Communist and Champions is the first book in English which examines in chronological order key issues in sport in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to 2012 in the context of Chinese history, politics and society. It explores the complexity...
Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Needham Research Institute Series
This book traces the history of the Chinese concept of "Warm diseases" (wenbing) from antiquity to the SARS epidemic. Following wenbing from its birth to maturity and even life in modern times Marta Hanson approaches the history of Chinese medicine from a new angle. She explores the possibility of...
Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
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
Series: Japan Anthropology Workshop Series
This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians, mostly women and children, who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan’s puppet state in Manchuria ended, and when most Japanese who has been based there returned to Japan. Many...
Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
Series: Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian...
Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
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
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
Complaint systems have existed in China for many years, and in 2004, a debate took place in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) over the Letters and Visits System (xinfang zhidu), which was designed to allow people to register complaints with the upper levels of the government. However, both...
Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
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
Series: Routledge Studies on the Chinese Economy
Urbanization is one of the major challenges facing China. Of China’s 1.3 billion people, around half still live in rural areas. There has been huge migration from rural areas to cities in recent years, a trend that is likely to continue strong for some time. The strains that this vast migration...
Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
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