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Books Received

(October–December 2017)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2018

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The China Quarterly , Volume 233 , March 2018, pp. 274 - 275
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2018 

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.

  • Cao, Deborah. Chinese Language in Law: Code Red. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. xii + 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-0395-2.)

  • Chang, Eileen (trans. Pan, Jane Weizhen and Merz, Martin). Little Reunions. New York: New York Review Books, 2018. ix + 332 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978-1-68137-127-6.)

  • Chen, Hon Fan. Civilizing the Chinese, Competing with the West: Study Societies in Late Qing China. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2017. xxxix + 276 pp. HK$300.00. ISBN 978-962-996-634-8.)

  • de Burgh, Hugo. China's Media in the Emerging World Order. (Buckingham: The University of Buckingham Press, 2017. 259 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-908684-34-9.)

  • Eberling, George G. China's Bilateral Relations with its Principal Oil Suppliers. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xiii + 345 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-5332-2.)

  • Gescher, Jeanne-Marie. Becoming China: The Story behind the State. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017. xxxii + 738 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-1-4088-8723-3.)

  • Hoefle, Arnhilt Johanna. China's Stefan Zweig: The Dynamics of Cross-Cultural Reception. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. xi + 210. £68.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7208-3.)

  • Höllmann, Thomas O. Chinese Script: History, Characters, Calligraphy. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ix + 132 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18173-0.)

  • Hu, Shaohua. Foreign Policies toward Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. vii + 161 pp. £105.00. ISBN 978-1-138-06174-3.)

  • Hunt, Reginald. Two Years in Beijing 1965-66. Book 1: Living and Teaching in Mao's China. (Oxford: Hurusco Books, 2016. xii + 188 pp. ISBN 978-0-9560235-1-3.)

  • Hunt, Reginald. Two Years in Beijing 1965-66. Book 2: Photographs, Documents and Teaching Materials. (Oxford: Hurusco Books, 2017. xiv + 161 pp. ISBN 978-0-8560235-2-0.)

  • Jackson, Isabella. Shaping Modern Shanghai: Colonialism in China's Global City. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-41968-0.)

  • Kokas, Aynne. Hollywood: Made in China. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. xxii + 245 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-29402-8.)

  • Lanza, Fabio. The End of Concern: Maoist China, Activism, and Asian Studies. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2017. xii + 262 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6947-9.)

  • Lei, Ya-Wen. The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China. (Princeton, NJ and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. xvii + 284 pp. $39.50; £32.95. ISBN 978-0-6911-6686-5.)

  • Mark, Chi-kwan. The Everyday Cold War: Britain and China, 1950–1972. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017. viii + 278 pp. ISBN 978-1-4742-6544-7.)

  • Mathews, Gordon, with Lin, Linessa Dan and Yang, Yang. The World in Guangzhou: Africans and Other Foreigners in South China's Global Marketplace. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2017. viii + 252 pp. $27.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-226-50610-4.)

  • McGuire, Elizabeth. Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. 480 pp. ISBN 978-0-190-64055-2.)

  • Moeller, Hans-Georg, and D'Ambrosio, Paul J.. Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. x + 221 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18399-4.)

  • Morgan, W. John, Gu, Qing and Li, Fengliang (eds.). Handbook of Education in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2017. xx + 558 pp. £160.00. ISBN 978-1-78347-065-5.)

  • Negro, Gianluigi. The Internet in China: From Infrastructure to a Nascent Civil Society. (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. xxvii + 247 pp. ISBN 978-3-319-60404-6.)

  • Noakes, Stephen. The Advocacy Trap: Transnational Activism and State Power in China. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. ix + 194 pp. ISBN 978-1-5261-1947-6.)

  • Pils, Eva. Human Rights in China: A Social Practice in the Shadows of Authoritarianism. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2017. 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-5095-0070-3.)

  • Ross, Robert S., and Tunsjø, Øystein. Strategic Adjustment and the Rise of China: Power and Politics in East Asia. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2017. ix + 304 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-0919-7)

  • Sandel, Michael and D'Ambrosio, Paul J. (eds.). Encountering China: Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2018. xv + 290 pp. £23.95. ISBN 978-0-67497-614-6.)

  • Schaefer, William. Shadow Modernism: Photography, Writing, and Space in Shanghai, 1925–1937. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017. xi + 292 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6919-6.)

  • Sen, Tansen (foreword by Gungwu, Wang). India, China, and the World: A Connected History. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2017. xviii + 539 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-1-5381-1172-7)

  • Shue, Vivienne, and Thornton, Patricia M. (eds.). To Govern China: Evolving Practices of Power. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xi + 321 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-107-193352-9.)

  • Song, Jing. Gender and Employment in Rural China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xi + 149. £105.00. ISBN 978-1-138-91576-3.)

  • Strafella, Giorgio. Intellectual Discourse in Reform Era China: The Debate on the Spirit of the Humanities in the 1990s. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. viii + 178 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-69673-0.)

  • Sullivan, Lawrence R., with Curcio, Paul. Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Economy. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. lxvii + 475 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-5381-0853-6.)

  • Szonyi, Michael. The Art of Being Governed: Everyday Politics in Late Imperial China. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. xv + 303 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-17451-8.)

  • Thussu, Daya Kishan, de Burgh, Hugo and Shi, Anbin (eds.). China's Media Go Global. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. xiv + 324 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-66584-2.)

  • Vala, Carsten T. The Politics of Protestant Churches and the Party-State in China: God Above Party? (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. xi + 231 pp. £105.00. ISBN 978-1-138-03690-1.)

  • Wang, Ban (ed.).Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017. 330 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-6946-2.)

  • Wang, Fei-Ling. The China Order: Centralia, World Empire, and the Nature of Chinese Power. (New York: SUNY Press, 2017. xii + 330 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-6749-8.)

  • Williams, Austin. China's Urban Revolution: Understanding Chinese Eco-Cities. (London: Bloomsbury, 2017. xvii + 220 pp. ISBN 978-1-350-00325.)

  • Xu, Bin. The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii + 237 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-1-5036-0336-3)

  • Yang, Jie. Mental Health in China: Change, Tradition and Therapeutic Governance. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2018. xii + 249 pp. £15.99. ISBN 9781509502967.)

  • Zhao, Yun, and Ng, Michael. Chinese Legal Reform and the Global Legal Order: Adoption and Adaptation. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 312 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-107-18200-4.)