Chinese Studies

With contributions from well-known China specialists, this volume explores China's reform era development within the context of translocality...

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the..

This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the..

Focusing on a relatively unexplored aspect of one of the world's most dynamic economic regions, this book examines the changing nature of unemployment in a range of key Asian countries over the last two decades...

Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence, this book discusses issues related to the growing unemployment problem in China. It examines problems of particular cities, appraises the government response, and assesses the prospects going forward...

Based on extensive original research, this book explores many aspects of unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China...

Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China’s hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years...

_x005F_x000D_ This book explores the course of urbanization and development in China over recent decades. It considers a range of issues including urbanization, changing urban and regional systems, regional integration and governance...

This book is the first to trace the historical origins of what is known as the ‘Taiwan issue’ in US-China relations from a constructivist perspective...

This is a collection of essays by one of the leading scholars of Chinese history, it explores features of the Chinese family, gender and kinship systems and places them in an historical context...

Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China collates documents detailing the conflict and politics of Chinese industrial development in the 1970s. Originally published in 1974, issues discussed in this volume include socialism, the harbour docks in china and tobacco factory workers. This title wil..

This book outlines the history of Xinjiang.  It focuses on the key city of Kashghar, the symbolic heart of Uighur society, drawing on a large body of records in which ordinary people provided information on the period around the communist takeover.  These records provide an exceptionally rich source..