October–December 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.
Alsford, Niki J. P. Taiwan Lives: A Social and Political History. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 240 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752167.)
Ashbee, Edward. Countering China: US Responses to the Belt and Road Initiative. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2023. 187 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781955055918.)
Au, Anson. Chinese Social Networks in an Age of Digitalization: Liquid Guanxi. (Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. 166 pp. £31.19. ISBN 9781003405962.)
Bachner, Andrea, Chiang, Howard and Lee, Yu-lin (eds.). Sinoglossia. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2023. 280 pp. HK$700.00. ISBN 9789888805716.)
Biran, Michal, and Kim, Hodong (eds.). The Cambridge History of the Mongol Empire (2 vols). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 1300 pp. £255.00. ISBN 9781107112957.)
Brook, Timothy. The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 256 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780691250403.)
Bruno, Cosima, Klein, Lucas and Song, Chris (eds.). The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 472 pp. £140.00. ISBN 9781350215306.)
Cabestan, Jean-Pierre (trans. Jayaram, N.). Facing China: The Prospect for War and Peace. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2023. 248 pp. $34.00. ISBN 9781538169896.)
Chao, Shin-yi (ed.). Chinese Popular Religion in Text and Acts. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 260 pp. €124.00. ISBN 9789463723626.)
Cheng, TJ, Uradyn, E. Bulag and Mark Selden. A Chinese Rebel beyond the Great Wall: The Cultural Revolution and Ethnic Pogrom in Inner Mongolia. (Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2023. 408 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9780226826844.)
Cheng, Victor. China between Peace and War: Mao, Chiang and the Americans, 1945–1947. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2023. xvii + 290 pp. Open Access. ISBN 9781760465711.)
Chu, Yiu-Wai. Hong Kong Pop Culture in the 1980s: A Decade of Splendour. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 304 pp. €129.00. ISBN 9789463728669.)
Crean, Jeffrey. The Fear of Chinese Power: An International History. (London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 264 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781350233942.)
Cui, Zi'en (edited and introduced by Liu, Petrus and Rofel), Lisa. Platinum Bible of the Public Toilet: Ten Queer Stories. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9781478030065.)
Davis, Michael C. Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong. (New York: Association for Asian Studies / University of Columbia Press, 2024. 280 pp. $18.00; £14.99. ISBN 9781952636448.)
Elazar, Gideon. Christian Missionaries, Ethnicity, and State Control in Globalized Yunnan. (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2023. 262 pp. $124.95. ISBN 9780271095554.)
Ergenc, Ceren, and Goodman, David S. G. (eds.). Handbook on Local Governance in China: Structures, Variations, and Innovations. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 484 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781800883239.)
Garlick, Jeremy. Advantage China: Agent of Change in an Era of Global Disruption. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 232 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9781350252318.)
Guingona, Phillip B. China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900–50. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 296 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009359245.)
Hao, Lei. Minzu as Technology: Ethnic Identity and Social Media in Post 2000s China. (Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2023. xvii + 266 pp. £87.50. ISBN 9789819954018.)
Hashimoto, Saturo. Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 432 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231211536.)
He, Wenkai. Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 320 pp. £25.99. ISBN 9781009334556.)
Hoare, James. East Asia Observed: Selected Writings 1973–2021. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 420 pp. €153.00. ISBN 9789048560011.)
Hu, Richard. Reinventing the Chinese City. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 320 pp. $32.00; £28.00. ISBN 9780231211017.)
Huang, Yasheng. The Rise and Fall of the EAST: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology Brought China Success, and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. (Boston, MA: Yale University Press, 2023. 440 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780300266368.)
King, Michelle T. Chop, Fry Watch, Learn: Fu Pei-mei and the Making of Modern Chinese Food. (New York: Norton, 2024. 336 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781324021285.)
Kong, Belinda. SARS Stories: Affect and Archive of the 2003 Pandemic. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $28.95. ISBN 9781478025665.)
Kong, Vivian. Multiracial Britishness: Global Networks in Hong Kong, 1910–45. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 292 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009202947.)
Lee, Jennifer Dorothy. Anxiety Aesthetics: Maoist Legacies in China, 1978–1985. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2024. 208 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9780520393783.)
Li, Jie. Cinematic Guerrillas: Propaganda, Projectionists, and Audiences in Socialist China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 360 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231206273.)
Li, Jinying. Anime's Knowledge Cultures: Geek, Otaku, Zhai. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2024. 344 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781517916282.)
Ma, Xiao. South Korean Migrants in China: An Ethnography of Education, Desire, and Temporariness. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 190 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789463726252.)
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, 2023. 336 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9780306830365.)
Marzluf, Phillip. Travel Writing in Mongolia and Northern China, 1860–2020. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 218 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789463726269.)
Mayfield, Alex R. The Kaleidoscopic City: Hong Kong, Mission, and the Evolution of Global Pentecostalism. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2023. 279 pp. $59.99. ISBN 9781481318976.)
McLellan, Timothy G. Science Interrupted: Rethinking Research Practice with Bureaucracy, Agroforestry, and Ethnography. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 174 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781501773334.)
Qian, Ying. Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231204477.)
Raidel, Ella. Of Haunted Spaces: Cinema, Heterotopias, and China's Hyperurbanization. The Films of Ella Raidel. (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2023. 84 pp. $24.00. ISBN 9789811858932.)
Riegel, Jeffrey. A Journal of My Misgivings: Liang Yusheng, Sima Qian, and the History of Qin. (Berkeley, CA: IEAS, University of California, 2023. 540 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9781557292032.)
Rollo, Stuart. Terminus: Westward Expansion, China, and the End of American Empire. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023. 280 pp. $55.95. ISBN 9781421447384.)
Rosenberg, Lior. Redeveloping China's Villages in the Twenty-First Century: The Dilemmas of Policy Implementation. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2024. 226 pp. Open Access. ISBN 9781760466015.)
Rošker, Jana S. Confucian Relationism and Global Ethics: Alternative Models of Ethics and Axiology in Times of Global Crises. (Leiden: Brill, 2023. 180 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9789004546264.)
St André, James. Conceptualising China through Translation. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 272 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781526157324.)
Stanley-Baker, Michael (ed.). Situating Religion and Medicine in Asia: Methodological Insights and Innovations. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2023. 416 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781526160010.)
Tsang, Steven, and Cheung, Olivia. The Political Thought of Xi Jinping. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 272 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197689363.)
Van den Troost, Kristof. Hong Kong Crime Films: Criminal Realism, Censorship and Society, 1947–1990. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. 256 pp. $110.00. ISBN 9781399521765.)
Vukovich, Daniel F. After Autonomy: A Post-Mortem for Hong Kong's First Handover, 1997–2019. (Singapore: Palgrave MacMillan, 2022. xiv + 175 pp. £89.99. ISBN 9789811949852.)
Zhang, Ketian. China's Gambit: The Calculus of Coercion. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 225 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009423786.)
Zhang, Zhen. Women Filmmakers in Sinophone World Cinema. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023. 340 pp. €136.00. ISBN 9789463729352.)
Zhu, Ping, and Xiao, Hui Faye (eds.). Feminisms with Chinese Characteristics. (New York: Syracuse University Press, 2021. 408 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780815637257.)