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Books Received

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The China Quarterly , Volume 256 , December 2023 , pp. 1146 - 1149
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

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.)