Book Search
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China’s Search for Energy Security
Domestic Sources and International Implications
China’s rapid economic growth in the recent decades has produced an unprecedented energy vulnerability that could threaten the sustainability of its economic development, a linchpin to social stability and ultimately the regime legitimacy of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as well as the...
To Be Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
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China and East Asian Regionalism
Economic and Security Cooperation and Institution-Building
To convey the image of a responsible power willing to contribute to regional stability and cooperation, China has shifted from a single-minded preference for bilateralism to an active participation in East Asian regionalism in the recent decades. This development has inspired discussions over...
Published February 8th 2012 by Routledge
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In Search of China's Development Model
Beyond the Beijing Consensus
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
This book examines the development model that has driven China's economic success and looks at how it differs from the Washington Consensus. China’s Development Model (CDM) is examined with a view to answering a central question: given China’s peculiar matrix of a socialist party-state juxtaposed...
Published June 30th 2011 by Routledge
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Grassroots Elections in China
Twenty years after the launch of village elections, the time is ripe to assess the progress and impact of China’s most notable political reform. Where have elections been conducted well and where have they been conducted poorly? How have procedures changed over the years and have elections truly...
Published October 3rd 2010 by Routledge
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China-US Relations Transformed
Perspectives and Strategic Interactions
Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
China’s emergence in the 21st century to the status of great power has significant implications for its relationship with the United States, the sole superpower in the post-Cold War World. Now that China is rising as an economic, political, and military power and has expanded its diplomatic...
Published January 29th 2009 by Routledge
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China and Democracy
Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China
This timely collection brings together many well-known scholars to systematically explore China's current government and assess that transition toward democracy. The contributors seek to bridge the gap between normative theories of democracy and empirical studies of China's political development by...
Published October 18th 2000 by Routledge
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Across the Taiwan Strait
Mainland China, Taiwan and the 1995-1996 Crisis
Published August 26th 1999 by Routledge