The SAGE Handbook of Contemporary China is a two-volume exploration of the transformations of contemporary China, firmly grounded in the both disciplinary and China-specific contexts. Drawing on a range of scholarly approaches found in the social sciences and history, an international team of contributors engage with the question of what a rapidly changing China means for the broader field of contemporary China studies, and identify areas of promising future research.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on the Editors and Contributors
• Introduction - Weiping Wu and Mark W. Frazier
• Volume 1
• Part I Context: History, Economy and the Environment
• 1 The Making of the Modern State and Quest for Modernity - Dali Yang
• 2 Nationalism and the Nation-state - Prasenjit Duara
• 3 Continuity and Change: The Economy in the Twentieth Century - Chris Bramall
• 4 Geographic and Environmental Setting - David Pietz
• Part II Economic Transformations: Introduction - Weiping Wu
• 5 Evolution of Market Reforms - Linda Yueh
• 6 State-Owned Enterprise: Reform, Performance and Prospects - Gary H. Jefferson
• 7 The Rural Economy - Susan H. Whiting and Dan Wang
• 8 Economic Growth and Labor Security - Jenny Chan
• 9 Inbound Foreign Direct Investment - Yasheng Huang
• 10 Financial System - Ming He, Yang Chen and Ronald Schramm
• 11 Technology, Innovation and Knowledge-Based Economy - Albert Hu
• 12 Sustaining Growth: Energy and Natural Resources - Jo Inge Bekkevold and Øystein Tunsjø
• Part III Politics and Government: Introduction - Mark Frazier
• 13 The Communist Party and Ideology - Kerry Brown
• 14 Corruption in Reform Era: A Multidisciplinary Review - Jiangnan Zhu
• 15 Campaigns in Politics: From Revolution to Problem Solving - Zhengxu Wang
• 16 Popular Protest - Wu Zhang
• 17 Bureaucracy and Policy Making - Andrew Mertha
• 18 Local and Grassroots Governance - John James Kennedy and Dan Chen
• 19 Labor Politics - William Hurst
• 20 Legal and Judicial System - Vivienne Bath
• Part IV China on the Global Stage: Introduction - Mark W. Frazier
• 21 China as a Global Financial Power - Arthur Kroeber
• 22 China and Global Energy Governance - Gaye Christoffersen
• 23 China and Global Regimes - Andrew J. Nathan
• 24 Engagement in Global Health Governance Regimes - Bei Tang and Yanzhong Huang
• Part V China's Foreign Policy: Introduction - Mark W. Frazier
• 25 China–US Relations in a Changing Global Order - Rosemary Foot
• 26 China–Japan Relations - Ed Griffith and Caroline Rose
• 27 Chinese–Russian Relations - Alexander Lukin
• 28 China's Relations with the Korean Peninsula - Carla P. Freeman
• 29 Chinese Foreign Policy: Southeast Asia - Taomo Zhou and Hong Liu
• Volume 2
• Part VI National and Nested Identities: Introduction - Mark W. Frazier
• 30 Popular Nationalism - Benjamin Darr
• 31 Taiwanese Identity - Lowell Dittmer
• 32 Hong Kong Identity - Ho-Fung Hung
• 33 Chinese Outside China - Nyíri Pál
• 34 Studying Tibetan Identity - Ben Hillman
• 35 Uyghur Identities - Joanne Smith Finley
• 36 Ethnic Studies Beyond Tibet and Xinjiang - Katherine Palmer Kaup
• 37 Religion - André Laliberté
• 38 Sexual Minorities - William F. Schroeder
• Part VII Urbanization and Spatial Development: Introduction - Weiping Wu
• 39 Urbanization and Urban System - Chaolin Gu and Ian Gillespie Cook
• 40 Population Mobility and Migration - C. Cindy Fan
• 41 Financing Urbanization and Infrastructure - Weiping Wu
• 42 Land and Housing Markets - Jiang Xu
• 43 Socio-Spatial Transformation of Cities - Jia Feng and Guo Chen
• Part VIII Poverty and Inequality: Introduction - Weiping Wu
• 44 Poverty and Its Alleviation - Björn Gustafsson
• 45 Regional Inequality: Scales, Mechanisms and Beyond - Felix Haifeng Liao and Yehua Dennis Wei
• 46 The Making of the ‘Migrant Class’ - Huimin Du and Wenfei Winnie Wang
• 47 Gender, Migration and HIV/STI Risks and Risk Behaviors - Xiushi Yang, Hongyun Fu and Meizhen Liao
• 48 Income Inequality and Class Stratification - Yanjie Bian, Lei Zhang, Yinghui Li, Yipeng Hu and Na Li
• Part IX Social Change: Introduction - Weiping Wu
• 49 Demographics and Aging - David R. Phillips and Zhixin Feng
• 50 Social Welfare - Daniel Hammond
• 51 China's Education System: Loved and Hated - Mette Halskov Hansen
• 52 Nightlife and Night-Time Economy in Urban China - James Farrer
• 53 Family Life - Jieyu Liu, Eona Bell and Jiayu Zhang
• 54 Health, Disease and Medical Care - Lawton R. Burns and Gordon G. Liu
• 55 Media since 1949: Changes and Continuities - Jian Xu and Wanning Sun
• Part X Future Directions for Contemporary China Studies
• 56 The Future(s) of China Studies - Sarah Mellors and Jeffrey Wasserstrom
• 57 The Future of China's Past - Kristin Stapleton
• 58 China and the Challenges of Comparison - Mark W. Frazier