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Food Cultures (2022)
Book Chapter
Klein, J. A., Berlin, S., Wang, C. Y., & Thomason, E. (2022). Food Cultures. In S. Kehoe, & G. Wielander (Eds.), Cultural China 2021: The Contemporary China Centre Review (41-55). University of Westminster Press. https://doi.org/10.16997/book69.d

The four pieces in this chapter all revolve around the changing relationship to basic food stuff traditional associated with backwardness and deprivation in the context of a search for the “authentic” by urban middle classes. Jakob Klein deals with t... Read More about Food Cultures.

A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism (2022)
Book Chapter
Barrett, T. H. (2022). A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism. In Studies of China and Chineseness since the Cultural Revolution: Volume 1: Reinterpreting Ideologies and Ideological Reinterpretations (21-40). World Scientific. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811260872_0002

The following remarks on the articulation between the end of the Cultural Revolution and the birth of the Society for the Study of the History of Chinese Atheism amounts to no more than a sketch, rapidly put together from whatever materials I have fo... Read More about A Revolutionary Afterlife: The Construction of a History of Chinese Atheism.

An East Asian Theory of Democracy (2022)
Book Chapter
Cheung, O. (2022). An East Asian Theory of Democracy. In S. Cooke (Ed.), Non-Western Global Theories of International Relations (103-132). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84938-2_5

East Asia, which proudly self-identifies as the “non-West,” offers rich empirical evidence to test the validity of Western theories of democracy, and to generate new theories on the contested subject. In addition to asking why the political realities... Read More about An East Asian Theory of Democracy.

Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’ (2021)
Book Chapter
Liu, J. (2021). Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’. In M. Silverstein (Ed.), Aging Families in Chinese Society (151-168). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003015529-8

Intergenerational relations are adapting to changing socio-economic conditions in China. Rather being lodged in a dichotomy between solidarity and conflict, this chapter reveals the emergence of ambivalence in changing intergenerational ties. Through... Read More about Aging and Intergenerational Ambivalence in China: An Urban–Rural Comparison’.

The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution? (2019)
Book Chapter
Caldwell, E. (2019). The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?. In W. Alford, J. Cohen, & C.-F. Lo (Eds.), Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (155-172). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0350-0_10

This chapter contributes to the growing literature on international human rights and National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) in Taiwan. Despite decades of debate, Taiwan has never established a NHRI that complies with international human rights no... Read More about The Control Yuan and Human Rights in Taiwan: Towards the Development of a National Human Rights Institution?.

Fostering Green Finance for Sustainable Development in Asia (2019)
Book Chapter
Volz, U. (2019). Fostering Green Finance for Sustainable Development in Asia. In U. Volz, P. J. Morgan, & N. Yoshino (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia (488-504). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543222-27

To place the Asian economies onto a sustainable development pathway requires an unprecedented shift in investment away from greenhouse gas, fossil fuel and natural resource intensive industries toward more resource efficient technologies and business... Read More about Fostering Green Finance for Sustainable Development in Asia.

The Development and Transformation of the Financial System in the People's Republic of China (2019)
Book Chapter
Tobin, D., & Volz, U. (2019). The Development and Transformation of the Financial System in the People's Republic of China. In U. Volz, P. J. Morgan, & N. Yoshino (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Banking and Finance in Asia (15-38). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315543222-2

After close to two decades of financial sector reform, the financial system in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is now a participant in the global financial system in a way that other large Asian economies such as Japan and India have never been.... Read More about The Development and Transformation of the Financial System in the People's Republic of China.

Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’ (2018)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2018). Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’. In C. Storm (Ed.), Connecting Taiwan: Participation – Integration – Impacts (41-60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351268967-3

The constant repositioning and re-enunciation of Taiwan in its national imagination since the 1990s reveals a process of re-centering the island’s spatial self in the world. This chapter examines Taiwan’s metaphorical severance from China and place-m... Read More about Politics of Repositioning and State Spatiality: From ‘Xiangtu China’ to ‘Oceanic Taiwan’.

Perspectives on agricultural and grain output growth in China from the nineteenth century to the present day (2018)
Book Chapter
Ash, R., Du, J., & King, C. (2018). Perspectives on agricultural and grain output growth in China from the nineteenth century to the present day. In V. Pinilla, & H. Willebald (Eds.), Agricultural Development in the World Periphery: A Global Economic History Approach. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66020-2_12

This chapter reviews agricultural development in China during the last two centuries. Changes in land and population, impacting on output growth, reflect decades of stability and peace that followed the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, but were hal... Read More about Perspectives on agricultural and grain output growth in China from the nineteenth century to the present day.

Demographic Trends (2017)
Book Chapter
Ash, R. (2017). Demographic Trends. In C. Tubilewicz (Ed.), Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development, 2nd edition (141-161). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315689050-17

The size, structure and rate of change of any country’s population have critical economic implications. This universal generalization has special relevance to developing countries, in which population growth is likely to be quite rapid. Above all, it... Read More about Demographic Trends.

戰後初期 (1945-68年)臺灣小學地理知識傳授中的家國想像 (2016)
Book Chapter
Chang, B.-Y. (2016). 戰後初期 (1945-68年)臺灣小學地理知識傳授中的家國想像. In C.-L. Mei, & P.-Y. Lin (Eds.), 交界與游移：跨文史的文化傳譯與知識生產 [Cross-border and Migration: Cultural Translation and Knowledge Production] (335-366). Rye Field 麥田

Gender and Sexuality (2015)
Book Chapter
Liu, J. (2015). Gender and Sexuality. In X. Zang (Ed.), Understanding Chinese Society (second edition) (53-66). Routledge

Contextualizing the China Dream: A Reinforced Consultative Leninist Approach to Government (2015)
Book Chapter
Tsang, S. (2015). Contextualizing the China Dream: A Reinforced Consultative Leninist Approach to Government. In D. Kerr (Ed.), China's Many Dreams: Comparative Perspectives on China's Search for National Rejuvenation (10-34). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137478979_2

After he took over as General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and as Chairman of the Central Military Commission in November 2012, Xi Jinping articulated for the first time ‘the China dream’ at ‘the road to revival’ exhibition at the N... Read More about Contextualizing the China Dream: A Reinforced Consultative Leninist Approach to Government.

Rebalancing towards a sustainable future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme (2014)
Book Chapter
Ash, R., Porter, R., & Summers, T. (2014). Rebalancing towards a sustainable future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme. In K. Brown (Ed.), China and the EU in Context: Insights for Business and Investors (81-141). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137351869_4

This chapter seeks to analyse and assess some of the major opportunities and challenges in China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme for Social and Economic Development (hereafter 12FYP).1 The main economic thrust of the 12FYP is one of sustainable, balanc... Read More about Rebalancing towards a sustainable future: China’s Twelfth Five-Year Programme.

China after Deng Xiaoping: the search for a non-democratic development model (2014)
Book Chapter
Tsang, S. (2014). China after Deng Xiaoping: the search for a non-democratic development model. In M. H. Hsin-Huang (Ed.), Democracy or Alternative Political Systems in Asia: After the Strongman (78-96). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315852119-5

This chapter examines the search the Communist Party leadership undertook for a non-democratic development model after 1997, and its implications. The political situation in China after Deng was laid down well in advance. Jiang's emergence out of Den... Read More about China after Deng Xiaoping: the search for a non-democratic development model.