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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

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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, ...

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 22, 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 ...

Perspectives on Plagiarism in China History, Genres, and Education

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

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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 ...

China’s Provinces Go Global Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy

China’s Provinces Go Global: Internationalization Under Guided Autonomy

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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

Chinese Modernity and Socialist Feminist Theory

1st Edition

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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

Premarital Abortion in China: Intimacy, Family and Reproduction

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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 ...

How Australia is Studied in China

How Australia is Studied in China

1st Edition

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Edited By Richard Hu, Diane Hu
April 29, 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...

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 ...

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

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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...

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