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.
Hui Muslims in the Shaping of Modern China: Education, Frontier Politics, and Nation-State
1st Edition
By Bin Chen
November 04, 2025
Chen examines the Chinese Nationalist government's distinctive support for private Muslim teachers schools between the 1920s and 1940s, and explores the complex relationship between these institutions and the Chinese state during the Republican period. In 1933, the government issued the Teachers ...
Ancestor Worship in the Diaspora Chinese and China Universes: The Making of a Collaborative Cultural Basin
1st Edition
By Khun Eng Kuah
September 29, 2025
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 ...
Chinese Diasporic Writers and Artists: Reimagining Identity and the Self Beyond and Without China
1st Edition
Edited
By Kwok-kan Tam, Lily Li
September 10, 2025
This book presents new and original essays that capture the enigmatic and intriguing personal and imagined worlds of Chinese writers and artists in diaspora in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Including chapters on artist-writers such as Gao Xingjian, Dai Sijie, Ha Jin and Hong Ying, Tyrus...
The Transformational Role of Dramaturgy in China’s Performing Arts: Proactive Engagement with Multi-Stakeholders
1st Edition
By Ting Zhang
August 11, 2025
A pioneering examination of a field in its early stages, Zhang delves into a detailed exploration of the evolving role of dramaturgy in contemporary Chinese theatre, bridging the gap between established Western theories and the unique practices emerging in the Chinese theatre scene, and offering ...
How Australia is Studied in China
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Hu, Diane Hu
July 31, 2025
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...
China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam: The Political Theodicy of Development
1st Edition
By Yuen-ching Bellette Lee
June 13, 2025
This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state’s use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era. Presenting observations from fieldwork collected after the dam’s completion, it reveals communities who not ...
Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi
1st Edition
By Anson Au
May 06, 2025
Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization investigates the impact of digital media on the traditional Chinese model of social interaction, trust-building, and social capital, known as guanxi. Guanxi is a system of cultural and psychological rules of networking that orders every ...
Heritage Conservation and China's Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
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By Victor C. M. Chan, Yew-Foong Hui, Desmond Hui, Kazem Vafadari
April 14, 2025
This book explores how China’s Belt and Road Initiative through promoting a non-Western-centred geopolitical narrative is affecting the conservation and management of Belt and Road heritage sites. Considering the dynamics between academics, heritage professionals, and government officials, the ...
The Geopolitics of China's Belt and Road Initiative
1st Edition
By Theodor Tudoroiu
April 14, 2025
This book argues that China’s Belt and Road Initiative should be seen more as a geopolitical project and less as a global economic project, with China aiming to bring about a new Chinese-led international order. It contends that China’s international approach has two personas – an aggressive one, ...
Heritage, Homemaking, and Identity Formation in Migrant Workers: An Ethnographic Study of Yi Migrants in Shenzhen
1st Edition
By Junmin Liu
April 10, 2025
Liu explores the experiences of Yi migrant workers in Shenzhen, China, investigating how their cultural heritage influences their search for identity and a sense of belonging. This book uncovers the intricate relationship between heritage and homemaking, examining how Yi migrants engage in their ...
Politics of Economic Inequality in China: Unbalanced Responsiveness
1st Edition
By Shuai Jin
December 18, 2024
This book applies a novel theory of ‘unbalanced responsiveness’ to the issue of economic inequality in China to better understand the relationship between authoritarian regimes and their citizens. The book highlights how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has responded to dissatisfaction over ...
Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics
1st Edition
By Thomas Heberer
December 18, 2024
This book argues that a major part of the Chinese government’s road map, formulated in 2017, to modernise China comprehensively by 2049 is the process of social disciplining. It contends that the Chinese state sees that modernisation and modernity encompass not only economic and ...