Bücher der Reihe Routledge Studies on China in Transition

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.