The Non-State Sector and Governance

Edited by Zheng Yongnian, Joseph Fewsmith

Despite its recent rapid economic growth, China’s political system has remained resolutely authoritarian. However, an increasingly open economy is creating the infrastructure for an open...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

By Jianjun Zhang

Since China began an era of market reform three decades ago, many Westerners believed that, political liberalization and, eventually, democracy would follow. However, contrary to...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.

China-Europe Relations

Perceptions, Policies and Prospects

Edited by David Shambaugh, Eberhard Sandschneider, Zhou Hong

The fast-developing relationship between China and Europe has become one of the most important in international affairs. China-Europe Relations takes an innovative and insightful look at...

Published September 24th 2007 by Routledge.

Capitalism in the Dragon's Lair

Edited by Christopher A. McNally

This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China’s rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain,...

Published September 4th 2007 by Routledge.

Shopping for Allies

By Czeslaw Tubilewicz

Taiwan and Post-Communist Europe examines Taiwan’s economic diplomacy towards post-communist states in Central and Eastern Europe. The media, and occasionally academia, have often suggested that...

Published July 3rd 2007 by Routledge.

China Watching

Perspectives from Europe, Japan and the United States

Edited by Robert Ash, David Shambaugh, Seiichiro Takagi

China Watching analyzes the state of European, Japanese and American scholarship on China over the last decade. The international team of contributors explore the main...

Published November 21st 2006 by Routledge.

Economy, Human Resources and Labour Markets

Edited by Grace O.M. Lee, Malcolm Warner

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking.

Successfully bringing together a wide...

Published October 3rd 2006 by Routledge.

Economic and Social Transformation in China

Challenges and Opportunities

By Angang Hu

The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

China's New Consumers

Social Development and Domestic Demand

By Elisabeth Croll

Exploring China's consumer revolution over the past three decades, this book shows a continuing cycle leading to excess supply and disappointing demand, at the centre...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

Engagement and Compromise

By Ian Taylor

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. Sino-African...

Published September 27th 2006 by Routledge.