Chinese Studies

Lam challenges the dominant vision of "a powerful China in Africa", and argues that the so-called "Chinese business advantages" – monolithic Chinese state and Chinese low cost advantages, are non-viable for sustaining Chinese business development in the continent. Considering the Chinese SOEs global..

This book systematically evaluates how drug addiction is represented and constructed in a series of contemporary life and filmic stories from mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. These stories recount experiences leading up to drug addiction and experiences during drug addiction, as well as experie..

This book takes a longitudinal perspective to study Chinese migrants’ transnational movements and looks at their transnational migratory movements as a family matter and progressive and dynamic process, using New Zealand as a primary case study...

This study presents the campaigns against China's Christians following the prohibition of missionary activity after 1724 when they were cut off from all foreign theological guidance...

This book argues that as new political and social values are formed in post-socialist China, Christian values are becoming increasingly embedded in the Chinese outlook. It shows how although Christianity is viewed in China as a foreign religion, Christianity as a source of social and political value..

Colloquial Chinese 2 is designed for people who already have some knowledge of the language but want to progress a stage further. Structured to give you the opportunity to listen to and read lots of modern, everyday Chinese, it has been developed to extend your grasp of Chinese grammar and vocabular..

This book explains how and why neoclassical economic theory became the dominant economics paradigm in China. It rejects the idea that the rise of neoclassical theory was a triumph of reason over ideology, and instead links the rise to broad ideological currents and to the political-economic projects..

This book sets out in search of what we call ‘Confucian HRM’ in Greater China and beyond, vis-a-vis people-management as implemented in an Asian context._x000D_ This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management...

This book presents a comprehensive examination of Chinese consumer behaviour and challenges the previously dichotomous interpretation of the consumption of Western and non-Western brands in China...

Critical Issues in Contemporary China: Unity, Stability and Development comprehensively examines key problems crucial to understanding modern-day China. Organized around three inter-related themes of unity, stability and development, chapters explore distinct issues (such as miliarty transformation,..

The striking parallels between Derrida’s deconstruction and certain strategies eschewing oppositional hierarchies in Asian thought, especially in Buddhism and Daoism, have attracted much attention from scholars of both Western and Asian philosophy. This book contributes to this discussion by focusin..

Chung analyzes and explains the negotiations that have taken place between China and three of its neighbours - namely India, Japan and Russia, by using Robert Putnam's two-level game framework...