About Us

Message from the General Editor

Welcome to the Routledge Resources Online – Chinese Studies

Chinese Studies is a captivating and significant field that unveils the rich tapestry of China’s culture, history, language, and global influence. Delving into Chinese Studies opens doors to understanding one of the world’s oldest and most complex civilizations. From the ancient philosophies of Confucianism and Daoism to the modern economic powerhouse that China has become, this discipline offers a lens through which to comprehend the evolution of a nation that has profoundly shaped the global narrative. As China plays an ever-growing role in global affairs, a grasp of its history and cultural intricacies becomes essential for diplomats, business leaders, and scholars alike. Unraveling the layers of China’s past and present fosters cross-cultural competence and effective communication in an era of globalization.

The Routledge Resources Online – Chinese Studies is divided into distinct sections, each shedding light on a crucial aspect of China’s past, present, and future. From the intricate tapestry of Chinese Politics and Governance to the dynamic realm of China’s International Relations, from the pages of Chinese History and War to the intricate mechanisms of the Chinese Business and Economy, this compilation provides an in-depth exploration of the nation’s multifarious facets.

Venture further into the labyrinth of Chinese Law and Criminology, where legal systems and social justice are deciphered, and navigate the fascinating terrain of Chinese Medicine and Public Health, unraveling the traditional practices and modern approaches that safeguard the well-being of millions. Delve into the evolving landscape of Chinese Media, Communication, and Technology, where innovation and information intersect, and examine the intricate weave of Chinese Society, Sociology, and Activism, where the pulse of a nation’s heartbeat resonates.

Embark on a linguistic and literary odyssey in the realm of Chinese Language and Literary Studies, where characters and words come alive, and immerse yourself in the profound realms of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Cultural Studies, where millennia-old wisdom meets contemporary thought. Throughout this compilation, the past converges with the present, tradition fuses with innovation, and knowledge is woven with insight, providing an indispensable guide to understanding the rich mosaic that is Chinese civilization.

Editorial Board

Chris Shei, General Editor

Chris Shei resided in Taiwan until the age of 40 before embarking on academic pursuits, earning an MPhil from Cambridge and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh. Joining Swansea University in 2003, he engaged in teaching and research within applied linguistics and translation studies. With the publication of The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Translation in 2018, Shei continued his collaborations with Routledge, resulting in the creation of handbooks on Chinese Discourse Analysis, Chinese Language Teaching, Chinese Studies and Asian Linguistics, and dedicated study series that have published numerous monographs and edited books. This endeavor led to the development of a far-reaching research network, encompassing distinguished scholars and dynamic researchers globally. Alongside, a proficient group of researchers, editors, and reviewers coalesced around Shei, ensuring the sustained momentum of these publishing feats. Through his journey and collaborative efforts, Shei has not only enriched academic literature but also fostered a sprawling research community.

Ching-Hsing Wang, Chinese Politics and Governance

Ching-Hsing Wang is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at National Cheng Kung University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Political Science from the University of Houston. His research fields are comparative politics and research methods. Specifically, his research interests focus on political behavior, public opinion, political psychology, political institutions, and Asian politics. He has published articles in such scholarly journals as Democratization, Electoral Studies, International Political Science Review, Globalization and Health, Party Politics, Social Science Quarterly, The Social Science Journal, and other journals. He currently serves as an associate editor for The Social Science Journal.

Mariano Treacy, China’s International Relations

Mariano Treacy studied at the University of Buenos Aires (Bachelor of Economics & Phd in Social Sciences) and has worked at General Sarmiento National University from 2011 until the present. He teaches and researches in International Political Economics and has specialized in International Relations, Regional Integration and China-Latin America relations. He has published the book Why is it so difficult to consolidate regional integration? Tensions in the construction of MERCOSUR through an analysis of the productive integration of the automotive chain, by Editorial Teseo. He has also published numerous articles in national and international magazines such as Latin American Perspectives, Revista Colombiana de Sociología (Colombia), Revista Izquierdas (Chile), Revista Economía (Colombia), Revista H-Industri@ (Argentina), Realidad Económica (Argentina),  among others.

Sui He, Chinese History and War

Sui He received her PhD degree in translation studies from UCL in 2022. She is a lecturer at the School of Culture and Communication at Swansea University, where she teaches a wide range of modules in translation and interpreting with a focus on the Chinese-English language pair. Her research interest lies in metaphor translation and cognitive linguistics.

Christine Tsui, Chinese Business and Economy

Dr Christine Tsui, independent scholar, business consultant, fashion columnist writer and fashion critiques. Tsui is also the winner of 2013-14 Fulbright scholarship.  Tsui has nearly 400k follower in total on social media in China.  Tsui’s business clients included VIPSHOP.com (listed on NASDAQ); Condé Nast Fashion and Design Training Center in Shanghai; Trendy (China) Fashion Group (one of the largest fashion retailers in China), H-Style (the largest internet fashion company in China) etc. She has been interviewed and quoted by numerous mainstream Chinese fashion media and financial media for her critiques for fashion business.

Michelle Miao, Chinese Law and Criminology

Michelle Miao is associate professor of law at CUHK.  She is an awardee of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Hessel Yntema Prize for the most outstanding scholarship by a scholar under 40 years of age. She is also a recipient of CUHK’s Academic Impact in Legal Scholarship (2021), Asian Law Institute’s Junior Faculty Award for best paper (2020) and Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Young Research Award (2019). Her manuscript has been presented at Stanford Junior Faculty Forum and Tsinghua-Chicago Faculty Forum. It won ASLI Junior Faculty Award for Best Paper. Over the past years, Miao has conducted research in the capacity of NYU Global Fellow, Oxford Howard League Fellow, British Academy Postdoc Fellow, NUS ASLI scholar, and Harvard Yenching Scholar. Miao is a CUHK-Stanford University CASBS fellow for 2023-24.

Miriam Gross, Chinese Medicine and Public Health

Miriam Gross is Assistant Professor of History and International and Area Studies.  She teaches courses on Chinese and East Asian history and on environmental and disease crises and rural life in China.  Professor Gross’s research focuses on the history of rural public health and the popularization of science during the 1950s in China.  She examines these issues socially to see how new ideas and practices changed people’s lives, and politically, to see how the government used them to consolidate power.  She received her Master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Modern Chinese History from the University of California, San Diego.

Qing Cao, Film, Media and Communication

Qing Cao is Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University. He is  founding director of the Centre for Comparative Modernities within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. His research interests include China’s modern intellectual history, the role of mass media in China’s modern transformation and mutual perceptions between China and the West. He is the author of The Language of Nation-State Building in Late Qing China (Routledge, 2023) and China under Western Gaze (World Scientific, 2014), and co-editor of Utopia and Modernity in China (Pluto, 2022), Brand China in the Media (Routledge, 2020), and Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China (John Benjamins, 2014).

Kenneth Yang, Chinese Science and Technology

Kenneth C.C. Yang (Ph.D.) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Texas at El Paso, USA. His research focuses on new media advertising, consumer behavior, and international advertising. His many works were published in Cyberpsychology, Journal of Strategic Communication, International Journal of Consumer Marketing, Journal of Intercultural Communication Studies, Journal of Marketing Communication, and Telematics and Informatics. He has edited or co-edited three books, Asia.com: Asia encounters the Internet (Routledge, 2003), Multi-Platform Advertising Strategies in the Global Marketplace (IGI Global, 2018), and Cases on Immersive Virtual Reality Techniques (IGI Global, 2019).

Ting Xue, Chinese Society and Sociology

Ting Xue completed her doctoral study at Nankai University of China in 2012, and since then she has been working at Tianjin University of Chinese Traditional Medicine until now. During 2014 and 2015, she was a visiting scholar at Vrije University Amsterdam. Her research is mainly focused on collective action, particularly the social psychological mechanism of online collective behavior.

Jie Chen, Chinese Social Activism

Jie Chen was educated in China and received a Masters Degree in International Relations from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Beijing) in the late 1980s. He then received Ph.D from the Australian National University (Canberra) in 1995. He has worked at the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Australia from 2004 to the present. He teaches and researches in the politics and international relations of East Asia and is particularly interested in the contentious social movements in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, and their transnational activism. He has published widely in various journals and media platforms, and is the author of a number of Edward Elgar books including The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement, and Transnational Civil Society in China.

Weixiao Wei, Chinese Language Studies

Weixiao Wei had been working in a Chinese university as a lecturer for twelve years since she obtained her MA degree in 2010. In July 2017, she received a visiting scholarship from China Scholarship Council (CSC) to undertake research projects at Swansea University, UK, for a year. Since then, she has published three monographs with Routledge: An Overview of Chinese Translation Studies at the Beginning of the 21st Century (2019), The History of Chinese Rhetoric (2022), A Notional Analysis of Chinese Academic Discourse on China (2023), edited two books including Routledge Handbook of Descriptive Rhetorical Studies and World Languages (2023), and numerous book chapters. In addition to preparing research papers, monographs and edited volumes for further publication, she has been pursuing her PhD study in rhetoric and composition at the University of Houston.

Kamila Hladikova, Chinese Literary Studies

Kamila Hladíková graduated from sinology at Charles University in Prague and completed her Ph.D. in 2011. Since 2007, she has been teaching Chinese literature and film at Palacky University Olomouc. In her research she focused primarily on representation of Tibet in the PRC and contemporary Chinese popular culture. She published articles on Tibet-related literature and film in the PRC and translated works of modern Chinese and Sinophone Tibetan fiction. She is also the author of the first Czech language teaching material on modern Chinese literature and co-author of the first Czech lexicon of the Sinophone cinema.

Bo Wang, Chinese Cultural Studies

Bo Wang received his doctoral degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. His research interests include systemic functional linguistics, translation studies, discourse analysis, and language description. He is co-author of Lao She’s Teahouse and Its Two English Translations (Routledge), Translating Tagore’s Stray Birds into Chinese (Routledge) and Systemic Functional Insights on Language and Linguistics (Springer). He is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Macau, China.

Zhouxiang Lu, Chinese Religion and Philosophy

Lu Zhouxiang is an Associate Professor within the School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at National University of Ireland Maynooth. He received his PhD from University College Cork, Ireland in 2011. His research interests are nationalism, national identity, sport history, and cultural history. His recent publications include The Routledge Handbook of Nationalism in East and Southeast Asia (2023), A History of Competitive Gaming (Routledge, 2022), Chinese National Identity in the Age of Globalisation (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), A History of Shaolin: Buddhism, Kung Fu and Identity (Routledge, 2019), and Politics and Identity in Chinese Martial Arts (Routledge, 2018).

Editorial Advisors

Harriet Zurndorfer

Ming Xia

Jiang Wu

Julian Ward

Yan Wang

Ignacio Villagrán

Wicky Tse

Jingrong Tong

Zhongwei Sun

Ariel Slipak

Xiaopeng Ren

Gary Rawnsley

Sergio Martín Páez

Edward McCord

Seiko Matsuzawa

Yinya Liu

Nancy Liu

Jeeloo Liu

Saihong Li

Hong Li

Wendy Larson

Karyn Lai

Wenshan Jia

Tze-Ki Hon

James Hargett

Wei Guo

Jue Guo

Vincent Goossaert

Luciana Ghiotto

Wenjun Gao

Anthony Fung

Chongyi Feng

Dafne Esteso

Thomas David DuBois

Dahui Dong

Paul Crowe

Andrew Chubb

Howard Y. F. Choy

Joseph Cheng

Isabelle Cheng

Zhuo Chen

Hao Chen

Derlin Chao

Timothy Wai Keung Chan

Kowloon Tong

Shelley W. Chan

Francisco Cantamutto

Bahía Blanca

Jean-Philippe Béja