Routledge Contemporary China Series
About the Book Series
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.
A History of Chinese Orchestras in Greater China
1st Edition
By Ming-yen Lee
June 30, 2026
This book traces the evolution of Chinese orchestra from its inception in 1919 to the present day, focusing on its foundation and development in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Ming-yen Lee examines the trajectories of the three earliest professional orchestras established after 1949—the ...
Tianxia and Its Discontents: Confucian Political Theology, Coloniality, and the Global Order
1st Edition
By Joyce C. H. Liu
June 10, 2026
Across shifting empires and today’s digital frontiers, Liu examines the Chinese concept of tianxia—the ancient vision of “all under heaven”—as it promises harmony while organizing domination. This book moves through maps, rituals, frontier conquests, and data infrastructures, showing how moral ...
Chinese Educated Youth Literature: Ambivalent Bodies and Personal Literary Histories
1st Edition
By Gabriel F. Y. Tsang
May 21, 2026
This book explores the literary history of the zhiqing, Chinese educated youth, during the liberal 1980s era of the PRC. By incorporating personal experiences, literary representation, shared history, and theory, it argues that attention to bodies’ physical/physiological condition, as represented ...
Cultural Bifocals on Chinese TV Series and Diaspora Fiction
1st Edition
By Sheng-mei Ma
May 21, 2026
The book explores how Chinese TV series and Asian Diaspora fiction are consumed, experienced, and adapted by and for audiences worldwide, particularly those of the Chinese diaspora. It focuses or ‘zooms in’ on well-known exceptional Chinese TV series such as Reset and The Bad Kids and ‘zooms-out’ ...
Exploring China's Religious Sites: Digital and Spatial Insights
1st Edition
By Zhaohui Hong
May 21, 2026
This book employs cutting-edge digital and spatial methodologies to tackle the critical issue of religious site scarcity across China for five major religions: Protestantism, Catholicism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Islam, spanning the period from 1911 to 2004. Drawing from Chinese government datasets ...
Performance Across Chinese Borders
1st Edition
By Wei Zhang
May 21, 2026
This book examines the dynamic intermingling of Asian performance of theatre and dance across the borders of the ancient Silk Road, which connected China with cultures and countries throughout Asia, and beyond. Revealing the dynamic interweaving of cultures between China and its neighbors from the ...
The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas: Worrying about the Audience in Postsocialist China
1st Edition
By How Wee Ng
January 22, 2026
This book offers a compelling look at how television censorship in China works not just as top-down control but as interactions between state, industry, and viewers. As a historical study of the discourse on Chinese television censorship, it analyses debates around the censorship of popular ...
City Branding in Chinese Megacity Regions: Against the Background of Ecological Modernization
1st Edition
By Haiyan Lu
December 26, 2025
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, ...
Modernization in Eastern Tibet: Leviathan the Forager
1st Edition
By Su Hu
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Perspectives on Plagiarism in China: History, Genres, and Education
1st Edition
By Yongyan Li
December 26, 2025
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
1st Edition
By Shen Yang
December 26, 2025
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 ...
Understanding China: Governance, Socio-Economics, Global Influence
1st Edition
By Chandran Nair, Jorgen Randers, Jinfeng Zhou, Frederick Charles Dubee
November 24, 2025
This book offers a long-overdue, balanced, and objective perspective on China’s transformation from a constrained economy in the late 1970s to a leading global power in 2024. It examines the political motivations behind China’s rise through a detailed contextualisation of the reforms and opening-up...