Books in the Routledge Contemporary China Series series

How do we understand the evolution of central-local relations in China during the reform period? This book addresses this question by focusing on eight separate issues in which the central-local relationship has been especially salient ¿ government finance, investment control, regional development, administrative zoning, implementation, culture, social welfare and international relations.

This is the first book in English to explain the social transformation of the Chinese family from the perspective of Chinese researchers. Presenting a comprehensive view of the Chinese family and how it has adapted during the process of modernization, it provides analysis of changes in family structures, functions and relationships.

Examines the government of Hong Kong since its handover to mainland China in 1997, focusing on the anti-government mass protests and mobilisations in the years since 2003. This book assesses different explanations for Hong Kong's government problems, including lack of social cohesion, structural budgetary deficit, and severe social inequality.

This volume showcases a vibrant wave of scholarship that explores the intersection of queer theory and Sinophone studies, consolidating an interdisciplinary framework for furthering transnational research into non-conforming genders, sexualities and bodies.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of the critical aspects of the HIV/AIDS situation in China, this book links the epidemic issues of economic and social development.

Based on research, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the status of state enterprise reform in China. It considers the relationship between public ownership and public enterprises, and the historical evolution of China's economic reform programme since 1978.

China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing. Looking at Chinese economy, this work discusses issues related to the unemployment problem in China, examines problems of particular cities, and appraises the government response.

With China's rise to the status of world power, trade and political links between Africa and China have been escalating at an astonishing rate. This book provides an assessment of relations between China and Africa, and discusses the historical evolution of Sino-African relations in the period since the 1949 revolution.

Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation in urban China, this book examines the impact of globalization on Chinese cities, including the economic, cultural, and political impact.

This book comprehensively analyses public sector reform in all parts of Chinäs public sector ¿ government bureaucracy, public service units and state-owned enterprises. It argues that Chinese leaders increasingly realise that efficient public administration is key to securing the regime¿s governing capacity and its future survival. The book shows how large state-owned enterprises continue to play an important and increasing role in the economy and in business. However, state-owned enterprises can no longer provide care for all from cradle to grave ¿ finding alternative, efficient ways to deliver basic welfare and health care is the big challenge facing Chinäs public sector.

Mapping Media in China is the first book-length study that goes below the `national¿ scale to focus on the rich diversity of media in China from local, provincial and regional angles. This book explores the media as both a reflection of the diversity within China and as an active agent behind these growing differences. It will be invaluable to both students and scholars of Chinese and Asian studies, media and communication studies, geography, anthropology and cultural studies.

This book uses both systematic survey data analysis and case studies to portray and compare the emerging middle classes in four ethnic-Chinese societies (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Urban China) and explores whether or not there are uniquely ethnic Chinese middle classes that can be constituted and found in these ethnic Chinese societies.

Provides an overview of how the China-Africa relationship has evolved over the years and examines whether it presents a different paradigm of 'development relations' in the international system. This book investigates what is particularly special about the development partnership between Africa and China.

A collection of essays, which present contemporary anthropological perspectives on Chinese kinship, its historical complexity and its modern metamorphoses. It is suitable for anthropologists and sinologists, and for historians and social scientists in general.

Central Asia and Xinjiang - the far north-western province of China - are of increasing international importance. This book explores the effect of global and local dynamics across the region. It argues that these multiple challenges unite Xinjiang and Central Asia in a common struggle for identities and economic development.

Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. The editors examine the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world.

High profile contributors explore the challenges of self-determination from the perspective of China's enterprises in social and welfare changes.

Written by a team of contributors from a variety of disciplines, this book investigates the rise and subsequent decline of SARS in Hong Kong, mainland China and Taiwan. It explores the epidemic from the perspectives of cultural geography, media studies and popular culture. It provides insights into what is still a highly topical issue.