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Books Received

(April–June 2016)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2016

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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 imperial, modern and contemporary China.

  • Baldanza, Kathlene. Ming China and Vietnam: Negotiating Borders in Early Modern Asia. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii + 235 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-12424-0.)

  • Berry, Michael, and Sawada, Chiho (eds.). Divided Lenses: Screen Memories of War in East Asia. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. viii + 331 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5151-4.)

  • Bloom, Michelle E. Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas: Absent Fathers, Banned Books, and Red Balloons. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. x + 271 pp. £59.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5158-3.)

  • Campion, Andrew Stephen. The Geopolitics of Red Oil: Constructing the China Threat through Energy Security. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xx + 186 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-138-95568-4.)

  • Clark, Hugh R. The Sinitic Encounter in Southeast China through the First Millennium CE. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xv + 266 pp. £57.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5160-6.)

  • deLisle, Jacques, Goldstein, Avery and Yang, Guobin (eds.). The Internet, Social Media and a Changing China. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. vi + 284 pp. $49.95; £32.50. ISBN 978-0-8122-2351-4.)

  • Denton, Kirk (ed.). The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 473 pp. $45.00; £30.95. ISBN 978-0-231-1700.9-3.)

  • Diamond, Larry, Plattner, Marc F. and Walker, Christopher (eds.). Authoritarianism Goes Global: The Challenge to Democracy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. viii + 243 pp. £22.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-1997-8.)

  • Dikötter, Frank, Xun, Zhou and Laamann, Lars. Narcotics Culture: A History of Drugs in China (revised edition). (London: Hurst & Company, 2016 [2004] xiii + 298 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-84904-472-1.)

  • Fuller, Douglas B. Paper Tigers, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China's Technological Development. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. x + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-877720-5.)

  • Goh, Evelyn (ed.). Rising China's Influence in Developing Asia. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 291 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-875851-8.)

  • Gross, Miriam. Farewell to the God of Plague: Chairman Mao's Campaign to Deworm China. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2016. xv + 357 pp. £51.95. ISBN 978-0-520-28883-6.)

  • He, Jiahong. Back From the Dead: Wrongful Convictions and Criminal Justice in China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xxvi + 236 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-5661-8.)

  • He, Kai. China's Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. x + 174 pp. $99.99 ISBN 978-1-107-14198-8.)

  • Jacobs, Justin M. Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press 2016. xvi + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-29599565-6.)

  • Kiely, Jan, and Jessup, J. Brooks (eds.). Recovering Buddhism in Modern China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. vi + 383 pp. $60.00; £44.00. ISBN 978-0-231-17276-9.)

  • Kim, Tongfi. The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xii + 239 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9696-5.)

  • Le Corre, Philippe, and Sepulchre, Alain. China's Offensive in Europe. (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2016. xv + 185 pp. $22.00; £18.50. ISBN 978-0-8157-2798-9.)

  • Lee, Luchia M., and Silbergeld, Jerome. Zhang Hongtu: Expanding Visions of a Shrinking World. (New York: Queens Museum; Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. 340 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-8223-6042-1.)

  • Mason, Katherine A. Infectious Change: Reinventing Chinese Public Health After an Epidemic (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xiii + 252 pp. £20.99 ISBN 978-0-8047-9892-1.)

  • Mazzilli, Mary. Gao Xingjian's Post-Exile Plays: Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015. vii + 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-4725-9160-9.)

  • Norris, William J. Chinese Economic Statecraft: Commercial Actors, Grand Strategy, and State Control. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2016. x + 303 pp. $39.95 ISBN 978-0-8014-5449-3.)

  • Preston, Peter W. The Politics of China–Hong Kong Relations: Living with Distant Masters. (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-78471-128-3.)

  • Rea, Christopher. The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China. (Berkeley and Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2016. xvi + 335 pp. £51.95 ISBN 978-0-520-28384-8.)

  • Rošker, Jana S. The Rebirth of the Moral Self: The Second Generation of Modern Confucians and Their Modernization Discourses. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. ix + 296 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5982-4.)

  • Song, Geng, and Yang, Qingxiang (eds.). The Sound of Salt Forming: Short Stories by the post-80s Generation in China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. x + 278 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5636-6.)

  • St. Clair, Michael. The Great Chinese Art Transfer: How So Much of China's Art Came to America. (Madison and Teaneck: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2016. xvii + 224 pp. £49.95 ISBN 978-1-61147-910-2.)

  • Topgyal, Tsering. China and Tibet: The Perils of Insecurity. (London: Hurst & Company, 2016. x + 309 pp. £22.50. ISBN 978-1-84904-471-4.)

  • Vermeersch, Sem. A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jin's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryo (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xviii + 366 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-5644-1.)

  • Vetta, Sylvia. Brushstrokes in Time. (London: Claret Press, 2016. 184 pp. £7.99 ISBN 978-1-910461-07-5.)

  • Wang, Qi, Dongchao, Min and Sørensen, Bo Aerenlund. Revisiting Gender Inequality: Perspectives from the People's Republic of China. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiv + 232 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-52050-0.)

  • Yang, Guobin. The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xv + 262 pp. $60.00. £44.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14964-8.)

  • Yang, Guorong. The Mutual Cultivation of Self and Things: A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. xvi + 304 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-253-02111-3.)

  • Zhang, Shanruo Ning. Confucianism in Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Actionable Account of Authoritarian Political Culture. (Lanham, MD, and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2015. x + 246 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-7391-8239-0.)

  • Zhang, Weiyu. The Internet and New Social Formation in China: Fandom Publics in the Making. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xv + 143 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-79926-4.)

  • Zheng, Jane. The Modernization of Chinese Art: The Shanghai Art College, 1913–1937. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. 416 pp. €69.50. ISBN 978-94-6270-056-7.)

  • Zheng, Tiantian (ed.). Cultural Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Asia. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. ix + 229 pp. $69.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5296-2.)

  • Zuo, Yana. Evolving Identity Politics and Cross-Strait Relations: Bridging Theories of International Relations and Nationalism. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xix + 234 pp. £14.00. ISBN 978-1-137-54034-8.)