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Routledge Contemporary China Series


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The aim of this series is to publish original, high-quality work by both new and established scholars in the West and the East, on all aspects of contemporary China.

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Modernization in Eastern Tibet Leviathan the Forager

Modernization in Eastern Tibet: Leviathan the Forager

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By Su Hu
August 05, 2024

Using ethnographic materials and documents from East Tibetan villages, this book addresses the impact of modernization on everyday life and the ways in which it melds with traditional forms of knowledge to create a new Tibetan identity and scientific rationality. Including cases centred on ...

City Branding in Chinese Megacity Regions Against the Background of Ecological Modernization

City Branding in Chinese Megacity Regions: Against the Background of Ecological Modernization

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Haiyan Lu
July 31, 2024

This book introduces a comprehensive conceptual framework which examines the impact of ecological modernization on city branding, using Chinese megacity regions as examples. Focusing on city branding efforts led by local governments, it delves into practices driven by vertical inspiration, ...

Perspectives on Plagiarism in China History, Genres, and Education

Perspectives on Plagiarism in China: History, Genres, and Education

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Yongyan Li
July 12, 2024

This book examines the issue of plagiarism in the Chinese context of history and education, both in classical and contemporary times. In view of the effort on a global scale to fight against plagiarism and consolidating anti-plagiarism education, this book examines how plagiarism is conceptualized ...

Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong Origins, Processes and Consequences

Rethinking the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Origins, Processes and Consequences

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By Shen Yang
July 12, 2024

Yang examines the political process of the Occupy Movement spanning from January 2013, when the “Occupy Central with Love and Peace”(OCLP) campaign was initiated, to December 2014, when the Occupy Movement finally ended. This book adopts an actor-centered approach in the study of democratization ...

Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes The Making of a Collaborative Cultural Basin

Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes: The Making of a Collaborative Cultural Basin

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By Khun Eng Kuah
April 16, 2024

Kuah explores the centrality of ancestors and ancestor worship of the Chinese in the Diaspora Chinese and China universes. Building on the original work and book on “Rebuilding the Ancestral Village: Singaporeans in China”, this book goes beyond the premise of remaking the ancestral home. Ancestor ...

How Australia is Studied in China

How Australia is Studied in China

1st Edition

Forthcoming

Edited By Richard Hu, Diane Hu
April 01, 2024

China has arguably the largest community of Australian studies in the world. However, not much is known about this phenomenon, including its emergence, rationale, interests, influences, and the implications for strategic Australia-China engagement in a region of increasing challenge and uncertainty...

China, Taiwan, and International Sporting Events Face-Off in Cross-Strait Relations

China, Taiwan, and International Sporting Events: Face-Off in Cross-Strait Relations

1st Edition

By Marcus P. Chu
January 29, 2024

Chu explores the politics behind Taiwanese cities’ pursuit of international sporting events, and the Chinese authorities’ strategic measures in handling the relations with Taiwan since the 1990s. It is assumed that the Chinese authorities constantly oppose Taiwanese cities’ application for, and ...

Chinese Regionalism in Asia Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative

Chinese Regionalism in Asia: Beyond the Belt and Road Initiative

1st Edition

Edited By Tiang Boon Hoo, Jared Morgan Mckinney
January 29, 2024

With globalization on the wane in a world fractured by growing great power competition, Hoo and McKinney argue that regionalism is likely to re-emerge as a focal area of significance and interest in the coming years. In Asia, how regionalism evolves is inescapably linked to China’s part in this ...

Corporate Women in Contemporary China “We’ve Always Worked”

Corporate Women in Contemporary China: “We’ve Always Worked”

1st Edition

By Xinyan Peng
January 29, 2024

Based on extensive, multi-sited ethnographic research, this book focuses on the culture of work in today’s urban China and on how it has permeated beyond the workplace to shape bodily training, family life, and kinship and social relationships among white-collar women in their twenties and thirties...

The Politics of Education Reform in China’s Hong Kong

The Politics of Education Reform in China’s Hong Kong

1st Edition

By Sonny Shiu-Hing Lo, Chung Fun Steven Hung
January 29, 2024

Education reform has become a highly political issue in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) since the transfer of sovereignty to the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Lo and Hung focus on the political struggles among stakeholders, including the government of Hong Kong, the ...

The Pulse of China’s Grand Strategy

The Pulse of China’s Grand Strategy

1st Edition

By Jean Kachiga
January 29, 2024

This book identifies and assesses the grand strategy of Chinese foreign policy following a flurry of diplomatic and investment activities in recent years. Through its adept application of the concept of grand strategy, it examines a series of questions concerning China’s objectives, targets, ...

Work Safety Regulation in China The CCP’s Fatality Quota System

Work Safety Regulation in China: The CCP’s Fatality Quota System

1st Edition

By Jie Gao
January 29, 2024

Fatality quotas implemented in China’s industrial section and local governments are being used to promote work safety and therefore, reducing the number of work-related deaths. Given the controversial nature of this policy, Gao analyzes how the fatality quotas are functioning to aid the ...

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