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Books Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2023

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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

October–December 2022

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 includes notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

  • Altehenger, Jennifer, and Ho, Denise Y. (eds.). Material Contradictions in Mao's China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2022. 264 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780295750859.)

  • Ardizzoni, Sabrina. Hakka Women in Tulou Villages: Social and Cultural Constructs of Hakka Identity in Modern and Contemporary Fujian, China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 254 pp. €94.00. ISBN 9789004518186.)

  • Becker, Jasper. Why Communism Failed. (London: Hurst, 2022. 352 pp. £20.00. ISBN 9781787388062.)

  • Bell, Daniel A., Acharya, Amitav, Bhargava, Rajeev and Xuetong, Yan. Bridging Two Worlds: Comparing Classical Political Thought and Statecraft in India and China. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 334 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780520390980.)

  • Bevan, Paul. ‘Intoxicating Shanghai’: An Urban Montage. Art and Literature in Pictorial Magazines during Shanghai's Jazz Age. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 421 pp. €41.00. ISBN 9789004525368.

  • Brown, Kerry, and Tzu-hui, Kalley Wu. The Trouble with Taiwan: History, the United States and a Rising China. (London: Zed Books, 2019. xxiii + 246 pp. ISBN 9781786995223.)

  • Chabrowski, Igor Iwo. Ruling the Stage: Social and Cultural History of Opera in Sichuan from the Qing to the People's Republic of China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 367 pp. €116.00. ISBN 9789004519381.)

  • Chan, Steve. Rumbles of Thunder: Power Shifts and the Danger of Sino-American War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 336 pp. $32.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231208451.)

  • Cheek, Timothy, Ownby, David and A, Joshua. Fogel (eds). Voices from the Chinese Century: Public Intellectual Debate from Contemporary China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2020. 400 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231195232.)

  • Chen, Titus C. The Making of a Neo-Propaganda State: China's Social Media under Xi Jinping. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 236 pp. €127.00. ISBN 9789004519367.)

  • Chen, Ya-chen. The Taiwanese Cinematization of Feminine Writing. (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2022. 310 pp. £64.99. ISBN 9781527581326.)

  • Curran, James. Australia's China Odyssey: From Euphoria to Fear. (Sydney: UNSW Press, 2022. 319 pp. $34.99. ISBN 9781742237152.)

  • Fu, Hualing, and Hor, Michael (eds.). The National Security Law of Hong Kong: Restoration and Transformation. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2023. 416 pp. $63.00. ISBN 9789888754199.)

  • Gao, Henry, and Zhou, Weihuan. Between Market Economy and State Capitalism: China's State-Owned Enterprises and the World Trading System. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 225 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9781108830065.)

  • Gartner, Scott, Huang, Chin-Hao, Li, Yitan and James, Patrick. Identity in the Shadow of a Giant: How the Rise of China is Changing Taiwan. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 266 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781529209884.)

  • Garver, John W. Crossing Borders: The Making of an American Asian Specialist. (Meadville, PA: Fulton Books, 2022. 284 pp. $30.95. ISBN 9781639858316.)

  • Gazagnadou, Didier. Dialogue with Joseph Needham: From Biochemistry to History of Chinese Science and Technology. (Paris: Editions Kimé, 2021. 100 pp. €15.00. ISBN 9782380720020.)

  • Hochstadt, Steve (ed.). A Century of Jewish Life in Shanghai. (New York: Touro University Press, 2019. ix + 240 pp. ISBN 9781644691311.)

  • Hofmann, Reto, and Ward, Max (eds.). Transwar Asia: Ideology, Practices, and Institutions, 1920–1960. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 240 pp. £28.99. ISBN 9781350281127.)

  • Hsiao, Li-Chun. The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2022. 190 pp. $95.00; £73.00. ISBN 9781498569065.)

  • Huang, Xian. Social Protection under Authoritarianism: Health Politics and Policy in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197642771.)

  • Kastner, Scott L. War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 272 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231198653.)

  • Keevak, Michael. On Saving Face: A Brief History of Western Appropriation. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2023. 136 pp. $64.00. ISBN 9789888754281.)

  • Kielman, Adam. Sonic Mobilities: Producing Worlds in Southern China. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2022, 216 pp. $27.50. ISBN 9780226817804.)

  • Ku, Inhoe, and Saunders, Peter. Poverty and Inequality in East Asia: Work, Family and Policy. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2022. 256 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781800888975.)

  • Kurlantzik, Joshua. Beijing's Global Media Offensive: China's Uneven Campaign to Influence Asia and the World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 560 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780197515761.)

  • Lackner, Michael and Lu, Zhao (eds.). Handbook of Divination and Prognostication in China. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. 570 pp. €179.00. ISBN 9789004511279.)

  • Lam, Joseph S. C. Kunqu: A Classical Opera of Twenty-First-Century China. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2022. 307 pp. $90.00. ISBN 9789888754328.)

  • Lamoreaux, Janelle. Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 160 pp. $23.95. ISBN 9781478019336.)

  • Liu, Jifeng. Negotiating the Christian Past in China: Memory and Missions in Contemporary Xiamen. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2022. 252 pp. $119.95. ISBN 9780271092874.)

  • Liu, Petrus. The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $25.95. ISBN 9781478019428.)

  • Liu, Weidong, Dunford, Michael, Liu, Zhigao and Yang, Zhenshan. Exploring the Chinese Social Model: Beyond Market and State. (Newcastle: Agenda Publishing, 2022. 198 pp. £65.00. ISBN 9781788214742.)

  • Gyari, Lodi Gyaltsen. The Dalai Lama's Special Envoy: Memoirs of a Lifetime in Pursuit of a Reunited Tibet. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2022. 800 pp. $40.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231206488.)

  • Malsagne, Stéphane. “Avec toi au pouvoir, je suis tranquille”: Hua Guofeng (1921–2008). (Paris: Les Indes Savantes, 2022. 478 pp. €35.00. ISBN 9782846546072.)

  • McGrath, Jason. Chinese Film: Realism and Convention from the Silent Era to the Digital Age. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2023. 416 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517914035.)

  • Mitchell, Ryan Martínez. Recentering the World: China and the Transformation of International Law. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 316 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108498968.)

  • Münning, Mariana. Sound, Meaning, Shape: The Phonologist Wei Jiangong (1901–1980) between Language Study and Language Planning. (Heidelberg: Heidelberg Asian Studies Publishing, 2022. 311 pp. €44.90. ISBN 9783948791292.)

  • Orlick, Thomas. China: The Bubble that Never Pops. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 272 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780197598610.)

  • Prado-Fonts, Carles. Secondhand China: Spain, the East, and the Politics of Translation. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2022. $34.95. ISBN 9780810144767.)

  • Raffety, Erin. Families We Need: Disability, Abandonment, and Foster Care's Resistance in Contemporary China. (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2022. 220 pp. $29.99. ISBN 9781978829299.)

  • Rofel, Lisa, and Rojas, Carlos (eds.). New World Orderings: China and the Global South. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2022. 280 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781478019015.)

  • Roth, Antoine. A Hierarchical Vision of Order: Understanding Chinese Foreign Policy in Asia. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2023. 224 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781529227505.)

  • Rowen, Ian. One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2022, 200 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9781501767692.)

  • Scott, Ian. The Public Sector in Hong Kong (second edition). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 464 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888754038.)

  • Shambaugh, David. Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 352 pp. £14.99. ISBN 9780197667347.)

  • Small, Andrew. No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West. (New York: Melville House, 2022. 288 pp. $29.99. ISBN 9781685890193.)

  • Stuenkel, Oliver. The BRICS and the Future of Global Order (second edition). (Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2020. vii + 264 pp. $100.00. ISBN 9781498567275.)

  • Thilly, Peter. The Opium Business: A History of Crime and Capitalism in Maritime China. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press 2022. 316 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781503634107.)

  • Walsh, Barney. Ugandan Agency within China–Africa Relations: President Museveni and China's Foreign Policy in East Africa. (London: Bloomsbury, 2022. 232 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781350255470.)

  • Weech, Edward. Chinese Dreams in Romantic England: The Life and Times of Thomas Manning. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. 280 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781526164551.)

  • Welter, Albert. A Tale of Two Stūpas: Diverging Paths in the Revival of Buddhism in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 256 pp. £47.99. ISBN 9780197606636.)

  • Wong, Jennifer. Identity, Home and Writing Elsewhere in Contemporary Chinese Diaspora Poetry. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 248 pp. $85.00. ISBN 9781350250338.)

  • Wong, John D. Hong Kong Takes Flight: Commercial Aviation and the Making of a Global Hub, 1930s–1998. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 360 pp. $60.00; £48.95; €54.00. ISBN 9780674278264.)

  • Wu, Fulong. Creating Chinese Urbanism: Urban Revolution and Governance Changes. (London: UCL Press, 2022. £25.00; Open Access. ISBN 9781800083349.)

  • Xiang, Biao, and Qi, Wu (translated by Ownby), David. Self as Method: Thinking Through China and the World. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. 268 pp. £34.99. ISBN 9789811949555.)

  • Yang, Rui. The Chinese Idea of a University: Phoenix Reborn. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 164 pp. HK$550.00. ISBN 9789888754298.)

  • Yip, Siu Hing, and Stenberg, Josh (eds). Kunqu Masters on Chinese Theatrical Performance. (London: Anthem Press, 2022. 486 pp. £120.00; $195.00. ISBN 9781785278075.)

  • Yoshihara, Toshi. Mao's Army Goes to Sea: The Island Campaigns and the Founding of China's Navy. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2023. 173 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9781647122829.)

  • Zhang, Lin. The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. xvi + 292 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231195317.)

  • Zhou, Xueguang. The Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 350 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9781009159401.)