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.
Greater China's Olympic Medal Haul: Beyond Sports Excellence
1st Edition
By Marcus P. Chu
November 28, 2024
Between 1984 and 2021, elite athletes from the member regions of Greater China – China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong – competed at each of the ten Summer Olympics. By winning 263 gold medals, 199 silver, and 173 bronze, China became a global sports superpower. Taiwan and Hong Kong pocketed 7 gold medals, ...
Public Policy and Health Care in China: The Case of Public Insurance
1st Edition
By Peter Nan-shong Lee
November 28, 2024
This book examines the introduction and ongoing development of public medical care insurance in contemporary China. Based on extensive field investigations, residents’ surveys and analyses by local policy experts and practitioners it provides a comparative analysis of the marketization of public ...
Social Enterprise in China: State-Third Sector Relations and Institutional Effectiveness
1st Edition
By Echo Lei Wang
November 28, 2024
Wang offers an empirically based exploration into work-integration social enterprises as a means for delivering social services in China. Focusing on the political economy of social enterprise development in China, Wang examines the nature of the relationship between the state and social ...
The Rise of Confucian Citizens in China: Theoretical Reflections and Empirical Explorations
1st Edition
By Canglong Wang
November 28, 2024
This book explores the relationship between Confucianism and citizenship and the rise of Confucian citizens in contemporary China. Combining theoretical and empirical approaches to the topic, the book constructs new frameworks to examine the nuances and complexities of Confucianism and citizenship,...
Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China: Designing a National Emissions Trading System
1st Edition
By Bo Miao
October 14, 2024
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 ...
Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics: A Tale of Two Chinese Cities’ Participatory Budgeting Experiences
1st Edition
By Su Yun Woo
October 09, 2024
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
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor Teo
October 09, 2024
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 ...
Red Tourism in China: Commodification of Propaganda
1st Edition
By Chunfeng Lin
August 26, 2024
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 ...
China’s Provinces Go Global: Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy
1st Edition
By Wiebke Rabe
May 27, 2024
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...
Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Sharon Wesoky, Shaopeng Song
May 27, 2024
This book assembles translations of the work of leading critical socialist feminist Song Shaopeng, presenting a concise narrative which theorizes China’s political and social development through a gendered lens. Providing insightful editor introductions, the book explores poignant themes from the ...
Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction
1st Edition
By Ruby Lai
May 27, 2024
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 ...
Sensing China: Modern Transformations of Sensory Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By Shengqing Wu, Xuelei Huang
May 27, 2024
This book presents the first collection of studies of the senses and sensory experiences in China, filling a gap in sensory research while offering new approaches to Chinese Studies. Bringing together 12 chapters by literary scholars and historians, this book critically interrogates the deeply ...