China Perspectives
About the Book Series
The China Perspectives series focuses on publishing original and translated works by leading Chinese scholars, writing about both global topics and China-related themes. It represents the complete portfolio of Taylor & Francis Books in China, which covers Humanities & Social Sciences, Education, Mental Health and Psychology, Science and Technology, Engineering, as well as many interdisciplinary themes.
This is the first time that any of these books have been published or translated into English for international readers. The series aims to put forward a Chinese perspective, give insights into cutting-edge academic thinking in China, and inspire researchers globally.
To submit proposals, please contact the Taylor & Francis Publisher for China Publishing Programme, Lian Sun ([email protected])
Game Theory and Society
1st Edition
By Weiying Zhang
May 07, 2020
The progress of society can only happen through interpersonal cooperation, because only cooperation can bring about mutual benefit, thus bringing happiness to each person. This should be our collective rationality, but we often see it conflicts with individual interests, which leads to the ...
Hyperinflation: A World History
1st Edition
By He Liping
May 07, 2020
Since 1970s when the world was experiencing an "age of inflation", a great volume of academic research about hyperinflation has been conducted. However, it is also true that parrot-like superficial talks abound, without questioning the economic, political and social foundations existing underneath ...
John Leighton Stuart’s Political Career in China
1st Edition
By Hao Ping
May 07, 2020
In China, John Leighton Stuart (1876-1962) is a controversial figure occupying an important position in the history of modern China and Sino-U.S. relations. As a scholar and educator, Stuart loved Chinese culture and contributed much to the development of Chinese education. While as a missionary, ...
Merchants and Society in Modern China: Rise of Merchant Groups
1st Edition
By Tang Lixing
May 07, 2020
In ancient China, as the lowermost class in the social hierarchy, merchants were viewed as greedy and immoral, commanding little respect. But since the sixteenth century, when China entered modern times with the sprout of capitalism, merchants have become a strong force to transform the ...
The Patterns of Symbolic Communication
1st Edition
By Sui Yan
May 07, 2020
With the classic semiotician Roland Barthes' ground-breaking research of semiotics, symbols are liberated from linguistics and extended to media research, which makes semiotics increasingly important especially in the present-day world dominated by new media. In this book, the author offers an ...
A Corpus Study of Collocation in Chinese Learner English
1st Edition
By Yuanwen Lu
April 28, 2020
Collocation is an important tool in describing lexical behaviour in language and has received increasing attention in recent years. Based on two corpora: LOCNESS (the Louvain Corpus of Native English Essays) and MLC (the Non-English major Mainland Chinese Learner Corpus), this book explores the ...
An Outline of Chinese Literature II
1st Edition
By Yuan Xingpei
April 28, 2020
Different from previous researches weighted toward historical description and individual writer and work, this book establishes a general analytical system and a multi-angled methodology to examine Chinese literature. In ancient China, there was no definite concept of pure literature. Considering ...
Assessing Listening for Chinese English Learners: Developing a Communicative Listening Comprehension Test Suite for CET
1st Edition
By Pan Zhixin
April 28, 2020
This book reports in detail the newly developed Communicative Listening Comprehension Test (CLCT) for the National College English Test (CET) of China. Following the principles of communicative testing in general and test construction approach proposed by Bachman and Palmer (1996) in particular, ...
Beyond the Iron House: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Literary Field
1st Edition
By Saiyin Sun
April 28, 2020
Beyond the Iron House is a critical study of a crucial period of life and work of the modern Chinese writer Lu Xun. Through thorough research into historical materials and archives, the author demonstrates that Lu Xun was recognized in the literary field much later than has hitherto been argued. ...
China's Fiscal Policy: Discretionary Approaches and Operation Design
1st Edition
By Gao Peiyong
April 28, 2020
As an important macroeconomic variant, the fiscal revenue and expenditure can influence the operation of the whole economic and social activities by changing the existing GDP distribution pattern, affecting the consumption and investment of enterprises and people, etc. Thus, fiscal policy has ...
China's Historical Choice in Global Governance
1st Edition
By He Yafei
April 28, 2020
Since the 1990s, the world has been witnessing the most fundamental changes in global governance structure and international relations. Due to multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversification and information revolution, a number of rising global powers have become new players on ...
China's Low Birth Rate and the Development of Population
1st Edition
By Guo Zhigang, Wang Feng, Cai Yong
April 28, 2020
As the most populous country in the world, China’s demographic challenges have always been too many people for ecological system, resources, and the environment. However, by the early 1990s, fertility rate in China had dropped below the replacement level, and China’s low fertility has now attracted...