Books in the Routledge Studies on China in Transition series

One of the common beliefs outside the People's Republic of China about the changes wrought by the reform era is that there has been no political change. This work explores the meanings of local initiatives, assessing their contribution to improving governance, and revealing the political nature of normative standards.

This book examines how the privatization and professionalization of 'public' service provision is transforming the nature of government and everyday life in the People's Republic of China . It addresses key theoretical questions on the nature of government in China and documents the emergence of a range of 'new mentalities of government' in China.

This book relates the stories of four leaders under very different political regimes: colonial, Nationalist and Communist. The result is an insight into the relationship between religious and political authority in a changing world.

Over the post-Mao period, the Chinese state has radically cut back its role in funding health services and insuring its citizens against the costs of ill health. This book contributes to piecing together understanding of the Chinese state's changing role across the economy and other social policies, including housing and education.

Using case studies, this work discusses the implementation and effectiveness of international environmental aid to China and examines how, and under what conditions, international aid can help to strengthen China's domestic capacity for managing environmental problems, especially at the local level.

Examines the political economy of the cotton processing industry. This book analyzes the process of cotton policy making and looks at how local governments and the former monopolist cope with the changes brought about by marketization.

This book provides a theoretically informed case study of the local character of regional change in China's lower Yangzi delta, as well as a new analytical framework for understanding China's unique form of economic modernisation.

This volume reveals through close detail and broad coverage how exactly cities have been catalysts for China's economic development. It provides data for those working in fields of economic development and Asian studies.

This book is a study of scientists holding membership of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Cao, among other things, examines the social stratification system of the Chinese science community.

This book studies the rulers of China - its top political leaders. It seeks to understand who they are, how job assignment in high politics is determined, and how the Chinese leadership is stratified.

Contributes to emerging studies of governmentality in non-western and non-liberal settings, by showing how neoliberal discourses on governance, development, education, the environment, community, religion, and sexual health, have been raised in other contexts. This book opens discussions of governmentality to 'other worlds' and the global politics of the present.

Explores the politics, practice, procedures, and public perceptions of policing serious crime in China, focusing on one particular criminal justice practice - anti-crime campaigns - in the period of transition from planned to market economy from the 1980s to the first years of the twenty-first century.

A critique of recent scholarship in China Studies concerning sexuality, prostitution and policing. Jeffrey's arguments are constructed in the form of detailed analysis of a wide range of primary texts, including documents, press reports, police report, and policy and legal pronouncements, and secondary literature in both English and Chinese.

This challenging study brings together anthropology and political science to examine how ethnic minorities are constructed by the state, and how they respond to such constructions.

As China enters its proclaimed `New Erä under President Xi Jinping, this book examines changes and continuity in social relations and political development, investigating what is genuinely new against the backdrop of continuations of previous trends and policies.

Questions whether China's market reforms have created favorable social conditions for democracy, whether the country's emerging entrepreneurial class will serve as the democratic social base, and the role of government in the process of transition.

Explores the issues of sex and sexuality in a non-Western context by examining debates surrounding sexual behaviours and the appropriate nature of their regulation, in China. This book shows how China's shift to a rule of law has generated conflicting conceptions of citizenship and the associated rights of individuals as sexual citizens.

This book relocates the discussion of nationalism in a more contemporary framework, which explores the disjunction between the people and the state and the relationship of each to the nation.

Economic liberalisation has led to disparities of wealth between the different regions of China, in turn leading to tensions. This book is an authoritative study of an issue that will remain high on China's political agenda in the future.

This work attempts to demonstrate how China's post-Mao reforms have produced a quiet revolution from below as the process of political and economic liberalization has accelerated.

This book analyses the major features of the Chinese legal system, on the eve of its accession to the World Trade Organisation and will be essential reading for students and academics in the field of Chinese law.

This book analyses the industrial reform measures taken by the Chinese government during the decade 1985-95 and the economic and political tensions between state enterprise reform and an authoritative political leadership.

Investigating the property rights in Chinese enterprises in the reform era, it appears that the distinction between the public and the private is blurred, that national reform policies are implemented unevenly across the country and that enterprises owned by local governments are very profitable.

This book offers a comprehensive account of inequality in China from an interdisciplinary perspective. It both draws on, and speaks to, the existing body of literature that is generated mainly in the fields of economics and sociology, whilst extending its scope to also examine the political, social, moral and cultural dimensions of inequality. Each chapter addresses the question of inequality from a specific context of research, including housing, health care, social welfare, education, migration, land distribution, law, gender and sexuality.

China's Thought Management argues that by re-emphasizing and modernizing propaganda and thought work since 1989, the CCP has managed to overcome a succession of local and national level crises to emerge as dominant in Chinese society as ever.

Argues that China's semi-authoritarian limitations on the freedom of association and speech, coupled with increased social spaces for civic action has created a milieu in which activism occurs in an embedded fashion.