Outputs (36)

The Political Thought of Xi Jinping (2024)
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Tsang, S., & Cheung, O. (2024). The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197689363.001.0001

Xi Jinping has been pushing to make his thought a major addition to China’s ideology, which guides China’s direction of travel. No other Chinese leader apart from Mao Zedong had their theoretical contributions elevated to this status. This book provi... Read More about The Political Thought of Xi Jinping.

Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (2023)
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Cheung, O. (2023). Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?. Amsterdam University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/jj.5053561

This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to c... Read More about Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?.

Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE (2022)
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Pierson, S. (Ed.). (2022). Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This collection of essays examines aspects of the history of food and drink in China through an innovative, interdisciplinary lens. Arranged in chronological and thematic order, the chapters present the research of a diverse group of international sc... Read More about Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE.

The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice (2020)
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Mou, Y. (2020). The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice. Hart. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781509913053

Drawing on insights from the author's own empirical data obtained from systematic observation of the daily routines within Chinese criminal justice institutions, this ground-breaking book examines the functional deficiency of the criminal justice sys... Read More about The Construction of Guilt in China: An Empirical Account of Routine Chinese Injustice.

Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia (2019)
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Volz, U., Morgan, P. J., & Yoshino, N. (Eds.). (2019). Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543222

The Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia brings together leading scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to provide a comprehensive and cutting-edge guide to Asia’s financial institutions, markets, and systems. Part I provides a countr... Read More about Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia.

Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus (2018)
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Caldwell, E. (2018). Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351180689

The legal institutions of the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BCE) have been vilified by history as harsh and draconian. Yet ironically, many Qin institutional features, such as written statutory law, were readily adopted by subsequent dynasties as... Read More about Writing Chinese Laws: The Form and Function of Legal Statutes Found in the Qin Shuihudi Corpus.

Taiwan's Impact on China: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs (2017)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2017). Taiwan's Impact on China: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33750-0

This book is about the basis and scope of impact that Taiwan – a democracy with a population of around 23 million – has on China, the most powerful remaining Leninist state which claims sovereignty over Taiwan and has a population of over 1.3 billion... Read More about Taiwan's Impact on China: Why Soft Power Matters More than Economic or Political Inputs.

Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work (2016)
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Liu, J. (2016). Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-50575-0

This book offers the first ethnographic account of the experiences of highly educated young professional women, hailed by the Chinese media as ‘white-collar beauties’. It exposes the organizational mechanisms – naturalization, objectification and com... Read More about Gender, Sexuality and Power in Chinese Companies: Beauties at Work.

China in the Xi Jinping Era (2016)
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Tsang, S., & Men, H. (Eds.). (2016). China in the Xi Jinping Era. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29549-7

This book examines the driving forces behind national-level politics, changes to the judiciary, social control, economic reform, environmental protection, urban development, the management of ethnic relations, as well as foreign and security policy o... Read More about China in the Xi Jinping Era.

The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics Society and Culture (2012)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2012). The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics Society and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137009906

As a country, Taiwan is one of the most vibrant, exciting, colourful and entrepreneurial on earth. The contributors reveal what underpins the vitality of Taiwan, examining the relevance of its democratic politics, civil society and the presence of an... Read More about The Vitality of Taiwan: Politics, Economics Society and Culture.

Combating Transnational Terrorism: Searching for a New Paradigm (2009)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2009). Combating Transnational Terrorism: Searching for a New Paradigm. ABC-CLIO

Intelligence and Human Rights in the Era of Global Terrorism (2008)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2008). Intelligence and Human Rights in the Era of Global Terrorism. Stanford University Press

Taiwan and the International Community (2008)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2008). Taiwan and the International Community. Peter Lang

Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the 19th Century to the Hand-over to China, 1862-1997 (2007)
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Tsang, S. (2007). Governing Hong Kong: Administrative Officers from the 19th Century to the Hand-over to China, 1862-1997. I.B. Tauris. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755619542

A Modern History of Hong Kong (2007)
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Tsang, S. (2007). A Modern History of Hong Kong. I.B. Tauris

Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation (2007)
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Liu, J. (2007). Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203964934

I explored the gendered implications of economic reforms by collecting the life histories of older women workers who had been made redundant during the economic restructuring. I examined their experiences in the danwei (work unit) during the pre-ref... Read More about Gender and Work in Urban China: Women Workers of the Unlucky Generation.

The Cold War’s Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom, 1950-1958 (2006)
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Tsang, S. (2006). The Cold War’s Odd Couple: The Unintended Partnership between the Republic of China and the United Kingdom, 1950-1958. I.B. Tauris

If China Attacks Taiwan: Military strategy, politics and economics (2006)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2006). If China Attacks Taiwan: Military strategy, politics and economics. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203087411

This is a new analysis of the key issues facing Chinese policy makers in their approach towards Taiwan. This is one of the most tense and potentially explosive relationships in world politics. This book explains succinctly the impetus, the methods an... Read More about If China Attacks Taiwan: Military strategy, politics and economics.

Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait (2004)
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Tsang, S. (Ed.). (2004). Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230524538

The end of the Cold War has regrettably not brought an end to all the major confrontations of the last century. One such confrontation is the stand-off across the Taiwan Strait. Despite increasingly interwoven economic links between the People's Repu... Read More about Peace and Security Across the Taiwan Strait.

Hong Kong in Transition: One Country, Two Systems (2003)
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Ash, R., Ferdinand, P., Hook, B., & Porter, R. (Eds.). (2003). Hong Kong in Transition: One Country, Two Systems. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203222775

Hong Kong in Transition offers a perspective on the exceptional constitutional and administrative experiment that has been taking place in Hong Kong, based on a substantial period under Chinese rule. There have been both successes and failures, and a... Read More about Hong Kong in Transition: One Country, Two Systems.