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Books Received

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 December 2024

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The China Quarterly , Volume 260 , December 2024 , pp. 1138 - 1140
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

August–October 2024

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.

  • Baker, Mark. Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. £47.95. ISBN 9780674293816.)

  • Chen, Yixin. When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 354 pp. $56.95. ISBN 9781501776380.)

  • Chiang, Howard and Shih, Shu-mei (eds.). Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. $45.00; £38.00. ISBN 9780231208635.)

  • Chou, Catherine Lila, and Harrison, Mark. Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2024. 222 pp. $39.99. ISBN 9781638573227.)

  • Chow, Yiu Fai, de Kloet, Jeroen and Schmidt, Leonie. It's My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong. (Cham: Springer, 2024. 230 pp. £89.99 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 978-981-99-6709-4.)

  • Copper, John F. Taiwan's Presidents: Portraits of the Majestic Six. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 242 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9781032697901.)

  • Dai, Yaoyao, and Liuqu, Luwei Rose. Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. 106 pp. $105.00; £81.00. ISBN 9781666914054.)

  • Dutton, Michael. The Book of Politics: China in Theory. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 440 pp. $31.00. ISBN 9781478030195.)

  • Elleman, Bruce A. The ABCs of Cold War History: Anglo-America, Bloc Soviétique, China, 1919–1994. (London: Anthem Press, 2024. 100 pp. £14.99; $19.99. ISBN 9781839992278.)

  • Fang, Yu Hu. Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752648.)

  • Gao, Wenshu, and Jie, Cheng. Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor, Volume 8. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €115.00. 152 pp. ISBN 9789004693254.)

  • Greenhalgh, Susan. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9780226834733.)

  • Hizi, Gil (ed.). Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 314 pp. €136.00. ISBN 9789463723992.)

  • Hong, Xuping. A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €170.00. ISBN 9789004693166.)

  • Jiang, Jiehong. The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 260 pp. €139.00; $151.00. ISBN 9789004537422.)

  • Jost, Tyler. Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £29.99. ISBN 9781009307222.)

  • Lam, Wai-man, Lui, Percy Luen-tim, Wong, Wilson (eds.). Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics (3rd edition). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 468 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888842872.)

  • Lau, Dorothy. Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 160 pp. €103.99. ISBN 9789048557066.)

  • Li, Hongshan. Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 488 pp. $37.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231207058.)

  • Li, Ji. Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 270 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108845229.)

  • Li, Wai-yee. Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €139.00; $151.00. ISBN 9789004693371.)

  • Liu, Lizhi. From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $120.00; £100.00. ISBN 9780691254098.)

  • Mao, Jingyu. Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 168 pp. £79.99. ISBN 9781529225853.)

  • Mastro, Oriana Skylar. Upstart: How China Became a Great Power. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 336 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197695067.)

  • Merkel-Hess, Kate. Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 264 pp. $45.00. ISBN 9780226834306.)

  • Naftali, Orna. Mobilising China's One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 232 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781399519410.)

  • Paulès, Xavier (trans. Lightfoot, Lindsay). The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 368 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781509552573.)

  • Pia, Andrea E. Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 344 pp. £41.50. ISBN 9781421448848.)

  • Previato, Tommaso (ed). Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China (Leiden: Brill, 2024. xix + 340 pp. €115.00. ISBN 9789004688230.)

  • Pritzker, Sonya E. Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 310 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780472056866.)

  • Rudd, Kevin. Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 624 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9780197766033.)

  • Sayers, Sean. The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 210 pp. £35.99. ISBN 9781032827452.)

  • Schultheiss, Christian. Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 382 pp. €141.00. ISBN 9789463728997.)

  • Shih, Chih-yu. Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 323 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438498874.)

  • Suettinger, Robert L. The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 488 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780674272804.)

  • Sun, Shao-cheng. Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2024. 373 pp. $125.00. ISBN 9781685859961.)

  • Thompson, Alexander. British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842–1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 180 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789463720397.)

  • Vortherms, Samantha A. Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 296 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781503640184.)

  • Wakeman, Rosemary. The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 264 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9780226834184.)

  • Wang, Hui (edited by Hill), Michael Gibbs. The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 1088 pp. £62.95. ISBN 9780674046764.)

  • Wang, Yuan. The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $115.00; £90.00. ISBN 9780198873037.)

  • Yep, Ray. Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 216 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888842926.)

  • Yuen, Kwok-Yung. My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 268 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9789888842940.)

  • Zhao, Tingyang. The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 162 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438498966.)

  • Zhao, Xinyang. Digital Immersive Art in China: Rejuvenation and Cultural Presence. (London: Anthem Press, 2024. 200 pp. £80.00; $110.00. ISBN 9781839993039.)

  • Zweig, David. The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-US Relations. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 200 pp. $18.00. ISBN 9781952636493.)