July–September 2023
This list of books received at The China Quarterly during the period stated is intended to serve as an up-to-date guide to books published on late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.
Ashiwa, Yoshiko, and Wank, David L.. The Space of Religion: Temple, State, and Buddhist Communities in Modern China. (New York: Columbia University Press. 440 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231197359.)
Bao, Hongwei, Mergenthaler, Diyi and Zhao, Jamie J. (eds.). Contemporary Queer Chinese Art. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 248 pp. £76.50. ISBN 9781350333512.)
Burchmore, Alex. New Export China: Translations across Time and Place in Contemporary Chinese Porcelain. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 280 pp. $50.00; £42.00. ISBN 9780520390010.)
Carter, Erin Baggott, and Carter, Brett L.. Propaganda in Autocracies: Institutions, Information, and the Politics of Belief. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 350 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781009271233.)
Chan, Alfred L. Xi Jinping: Political Career, Governance, and Leadership, 1953–2018. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. 736 pp. $54.00. ISBN 9780197615225.)
Chen, Janet Y. The Sounds of Mandarin: Learning to Speak a National Language in China and Taiwan, 1913–1960. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 424 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231209038.)
Chen, Sihe. Global Elements in Chinese Literature. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 404 pp. €170.00. ISBN 9789004511040.)
Cheung, Olivia. Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right? (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 190 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789463720298.)
Chin, Angela. Unsettling Exiles: Chinese Migrants in Hong Kong and the Southern Periphery During the Cold War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231209991.)
Chung, Fanny M. Y. Music and Play in Early Childhood Education: Teaching Music in Hong Kong, China and the World (Cham: Springer Nature, 2022. xii + 249 pp. £74.99. ISBN 978-981-19-5035-3).
Ci, Xiaoying. Entrepreneurs in Contemporary China: Wealth, Connections, and Crisis. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 218 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009316101.)
Clart, Philip, and Meyer, Christian (eds.). From Trustworthiness to Secular Beliefs: Changing Concepts of xin 信 from Traditional to Modern Chinese. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. €220.00; $244.00. ISBN 9789004532991.)
Finnane, Antonia. How to Make a Mao Suit: Clothing the People of Communist China, 1949–1976. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 376 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781009359955.)
Fu, Huiyan (ed.). Temporary and Gig Economy Workers in China and Japan: The Culture of Unequal Work. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 272 pp. £70.00. ISBN 9780192849694.)
Fugazzola, Caterina. Words like Water: Queer Mobilization and Social Change in China. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023. 190 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781439921470.)
Gainous, Jason, Han, Rongbin, MacDonald, Andrew W. and Wagner, Kevin M.. Directed Digital Dissidence in Autocracies: How China Wins Online. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 184 pp. £75.00. ISBN 9780197680384.)
Gao, Henry, Raess, Damian and Zeng, Ka (eds.) China and the WTO: A Twenty-Year Assessment. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 550 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781009291781.)
Grant, Catherine L., Patalano, Alessio and Russell, James A. (eds.). The New Age of Naval Power in the Indo-Pacific (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. 340 pp. $45.95. ISBN 9781647123390.)
Groswald Ozery, Tamar. Law and Political Economy in China: The Role of Law in Corporate Governance and Market Growth. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 304 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781009158244.)
Harrison, Henrietta. The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 360 pp. $21.95; £17.99. ISBN 9780691225463.)
He, Qiliang. Working the System: Motion Picture, Filmmakers, and Subjectivities in Mao-Era China, 1949–1966. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 180 pp. $83.00. ISBN 9789888805600.)
Heberer, Feng-Mei. Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 200 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9781517914813.)
Heberer, Thomas. Social Disciplining and Civilising Processes in China: The Politics of Morality and the Morality of Politics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 236 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781032404363.)
Hillenbrand, Margaret. On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xxiii + 378 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9780231212151.)
Huang, Xuelei. Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 309 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9781009207041.)
Jing, Hui. The Governance of Chinese Charitable Trusts. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 350 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781009327909.)
Kyong-McClain, Jeff, and Lee, Joseph Tse-Hei (eds.). From Missionary Education to Confucius Institutes: Historical Reflections on Sino-American Cultural Exchange. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. 258 pp. £130.00. ISBN 9781032497860.)
Lam, Willy. Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. xii + 222 pp. £27.99. ISBN 9781032301402.)
Leese, Daniel, and Shuman, Amanda (eds.). Justice After Mao: The Politics of Historical Truth in the People's Republic of China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 357 pp. £100.00. ISBN 9781009261296.)
Li, Jie. Sovietology in Post-Mao China: Aspects of Foreign Relations, Politics, and Nationality, 1980–1999. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. vii + 325 pp. €127.00. ISBN 9789004540910.)
Lin, Jean Yen-chun. A Spark in the Smokestacks: Environmental Organizing in Beijing Middle-Class Communities. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 344 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231194518.)
Liu, Zongyuan Zoe. Sovereign Funds: How the Communist Party of China Finances Its Global Ambitions. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $45.00; £39.95; €40.95. ISBN 9780674271913.)
Lu, Xiaoxuan. Shifting Sands: Landscape, Memory, and Commodities in China's Contemporary Borderlands. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2023. 344 pp. $50.00. ISBN 9781477327555.)
Mahtani, Shibani, and McLaughlin, Timothy. Among the Braves: Hope, Struggle, and Exile in the Battle for Hong Kong and the Future of Global Democracy. (New York: Hachette Books, 2023. 336 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780306830365.)
Manning, Kimberley Ens. The Party Family: Revolutionary Attachments and the Gendered Origins of State Power in China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2023. 402 pp. $36.96. ISBN 9781501771415.)
Medeiros, Evan S. (ed.). Cold Rivals: The New Era of US–China Strategic Competition. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $36.95. ISBN 9781647123598.)
Mok, Florence. Covert Colonialism: Governance, Surveillance and Political Culture in British Hong Kong, c. 1966–97. (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2023. 296 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781526158192.)
O'Brien, David, and Brown, Melissa Shani. People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 372 pp. £39.99. ISBN 9789811937774.)
Peng, Hsiao-yen. Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 240 pp. HK$300.00. ISBN 9789888805693.)
Powell, Emilia Justyna. The Peaceful Resolution of Territorial and Maritime Disputes. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 328 pp. £54.00. ISBN 9780197675649.)
Rho, Sungmin. Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 200 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009161206.)
Shu, Xiaoling, and Chen, Jingjing. Chinese Marriages in Transition: From Patriarchy to New Familism. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 218 pp. $31.95. ISBN 9781978804661.)
Smart, Alan, and Keung Charles, Fung Chi. Hong Kong Public and Squatter Housing: Geopolitics and Informality, 1963–1985. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 340 pp. $38.00. ISBN 9789888805648.)
Stenslie, Stig, and Galtung, Marte Kjaer. Xi Jinping's China: The Personal and the Political. (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner, 2023. viii + 179 pp. ISBN 9781685859473.)
Sun, Wanning, and Yu, Haiqing. Digital Transnationalism: Chinese-Language Media in Australia (Leiden: Brill, 2023. xii + 285 pp. €130.00. ISBN 9789004525337.)
Sun, Yutao, and Cao, Cong. The Political Economy of Science, Technology, and Innovation in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. xviii + 244 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108490580.)
Tao, Feiya. Beyond Indigenization: Christianity and Chinese History in a Global Context. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 508 pp. €187.00. ISBN 9789004532113.)
Trémon, Anne-Christine. From Village Commons to Public Goods: Graduated Provision in Urbanizing China. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2023. 284 pp. $135.00; £99.00. ISBN 9781800739000.)
Tso, Bendi, Gyatso, Marnyi, Tsering, Naljor, Turin, Mark and Members of the Choné Tibetan Community. Shépa: The Tibetan Oral Tradition in Choné. (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2023. 778 pp. £28.95. ISBN 9781800648005.)
Visser, Robin. Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 339 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9780231199610.)
Wan, Xinyuan. Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China: From the Cultural to the Digital Revolution in Shanghai. (London: UCL Press, 2023. 312 pp. [Open Access]. ISBN 9781800084100.)
Wang, Canglong. Cultivating the Confucian Individual: The Confucian Education Revival in China. (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. £109.99. ISBN 9783031276682.)
Wang, Chi. Xi Jinping, China, and the United States. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023. 470 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781666936957.)
Wang, Fei-Ling. The China Record: An Assessment of the People's Republic. (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2023. 421 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781438492278.)
Williams, Emily R. Collecting the Revolution: British Engagements with Chinese Cultural Revolution Material Culture. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2022. 240 pp. £92.00. ISBN 9781538150672.)
Wu, Shellen Xiao. Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Global Frontiers and the Making of Modern China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 328 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781503636842.)
Yu, Zhansui. Questioning the Chinese Model: Oppositional Political Novels in Early Twenty-First Century China. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023. 257 pp. £70.00. ISBN 9781487544348.)