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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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Civil Society in China How Society Speaks to the State

Civil Society in China: How Society Speaks to the State

1st Edition

By Runya Qiaoan
May 31, 2023

Chinese civil society groups have achieved iconic policy advocacy successes in the areas of environmental protection, women’s rights, poverty alleviation, and public health. This book examines why some groups are successful in policy advocacy within the authoritarian context, while others fail. A ...

Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China Government versus Local Perspectives

Ethnic Identity of the Kam People in Contemporary China: Government versus Local Perspectives

1st Edition

By Wei Wang, Lisong Jiang
May 31, 2023

Based on three years of fieldwork in Zhanli, a remote Kam Village in Guizhou Province, Wang and Jiang explore the complex dynamics between the discursive practices of the local government and the villagers in relation to the reconstruction of Kam identity in response to social change, particularly ...

Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation in Hong Kong Creative and Tactical Belonging

Ethnic Minorities, Media and Participation in Hong Kong: Creative and Tactical Belonging

1st Edition

By Lisa Y.M. Leung
May 31, 2023

Second and third generation South and Southeast Asian minorities in Hong Kong, being marginalized from mainstream social and political affairs, have developed an ambivalent sense of belonging to their host society. Unlike their forefathers who first settled in Hong Kong under British colonial rule,...

Local Clan Communities in Rural China Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty

Local Clan Communities in Rural China: Revolution and Urbanisation since the Late Qing Dynasty

1st Edition

By Zongli Tang
May 31, 2023

Using data collected in fieldwork and surveys, this book examines China’s clan system and local clan communities in rural Anhui, covering events in two periods: the imperial pattern as seen in the first half of the twentieth century and changes since 1949. Revealed by this research, during the...

The Politics of Waste Management in Greater China Environmental Governance and Public Participation in Transition

The Politics of Waste Management in Greater China: Environmental Governance and Public Participation in Transition

1st Edition

By Natalie Wai Man Wong
May 31, 2023

The growth of municipal waste is a common challenge found in the urbanised cities of Greater China, but the question of how to manage municipal waste is controversial. Wong examines the politics of managing municipal waste in three cities of Greater China: Guangzhou, Taipei, and Hong Kong. She ...

Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics A Tale of Two Chinese Cities’ Participatory Budgeting Experiences

Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics: A Tale of Two Chinese Cities’ Participatory Budgeting Experiences

1st Edition

By Su Yun Woo
March 10, 2023

Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level. Despite the tightening of civil society under Xi there are still some opportunities for the Chinese people to ...

Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia

Human-Animal Interactions in Anthropocene Asia

1st Edition

Edited By Victor Teo
March 03, 2023

This book examines the theme of human–animal interactions contextualized against the idea of the Anthropocene. Focused on China and its immediate Asian borderlands, this interdisciplinary collection provides a powerful and insightful analysis of the ecological challenges that mankind’s traditional ...

The Chinese Lifestyle The Reconfiguration of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

The Chinese Lifestyle: The Reconfiguration of the Middle Class in Contemporary China

1st Edition

By Alfonso Sanchez-Romera
January 13, 2023

The research presented in this book explores the formation of the middle class in contemporary urban China. Including case studies on middle-class professionals living in Beijing, this book analyses how social and economic changes to Chinese society create a middle-class lifestyle and new forms of...

China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates Oil as an Idea

China’s Energy Security and Relations With Petrostates: Oil as an Idea

1st Edition

By Anna Kuteleva
January 09, 2023

This book examines the development of bilateral energy relations between China and the two oil-rich countries, Kazakhstan and Russia. Challenging conventional assumptions about energy politics and China’s global quest for oil, this book examines the interplay of politics and sociocultural contexts....

Red Tourism in China Commodification of Propaganda

Red Tourism in China: Commodification of Propaganda

1st Edition

By Chunfeng Lin
December 30, 2022

This book analyzes the phenomenally profitable “Red Tourism” industry in China, in which visitors make pilgrimages to sites of historical significance to the Communist Party of China and the Chinese Revolution. The book examines Red Tourism in connection with the transforming power relations ...

Premarital Abortion in China Intimacy, Family and Reproduction

Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction

1st Edition

By Ruby Lai
November 30, 2022

Drawing on participant observations, in-depth interviews, and content analysis of online materials, Lai investigates the role of individual choice, relationships, and institutions in unmarried Chinese women’s decisions to terminate their pregnancies. Where many previous studies have focused on ...

China’s Provinces Go Global Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy

China’s Provinces Go Global: Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy

1st Edition

By Wiebke Rabe
October 27, 2022

This book provides novel insights into how Chinese provinces have developed into major sources of China’s outbound investments. Focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, the book compares two provinces with highest outbound investment in China, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and traces how locality-unique...

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