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Books Received

(July–September 2016)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2016

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The China Quarterly , Volume 228 , December 2016 , pp. 1144 - 1146
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2016 

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

  • Bruckermann, Charlotte, and Feuchtwang, Stephan. The Anthropology of China: China as Ethnographic and Theoretical Critique. (London: Imperial College Press, 2016. x + 279 pp. £37.00; $45.00. ISBN 978-1-78326-983-9.)

  • Cai, Yongshun. The Occupy Movement in Hong Kong: Sustaining Decentralized Protest. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 172 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-69229-9.)

  • Chen, Cheng. The Return of Ideology: The Search for Regime Identities in Postcommunist Russia and China. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. x + 228 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-472-11993-6.)

  • Ch'ien, Ssu-ma (ed. by Nienhauser, William H. Jr.). The Grand Scribe's Records: Volume X: The Memoirs of Han China, Part III. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. xxxiv + 342 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-253-01931-8.)

  • Chin, Yik Chan. Television Regulation and Media Policy in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xi + 261 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49083-2.)

  • Chu, Yun-han, Diamond, Larry and Templeman, Kharis. Taiwan's Democracy Challenged: The Chen Shui-bian Era. (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2016. xii + 363 pp. ISBN 978-1-62637-404-1.)

  • Chumley, Lily. Creativity Class: Art School and Culture Work in Postsocialist China. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. xi + 244 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16497-7.)

  • Chung, Jae Ho. Centrifugal Empire: Central–Local Relations in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. x + 216 pp. $60.00; £44.00. ISBN 978-0-231-17620-0.)

  • Cliff, Tom. Oil and Water: Being Han in Xinjiang. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 252 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-226-36013-3.)

  • Edwards, Louise. Women Warriors and Wartime Spies of China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xii + 272 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-1-316-50934-0.)

  • Flath, James A. Traces of the Sage: Monument, Materiality, and the First Temple of Confucius. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. xix + 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-5370-9.)

  • Ge, Fei (trans. by Morse, Canaan). The Invisibility Cloak. (New York: New York Review of Books, 2016. 126 pp. $14.00. ISBN 978-1-68137-020-0.)

  • Gillette, Maris Boyd. China's Porcelain Capital: The Rise, Fall and Reinvention of Ceramics in Jingdezhen. (London, Oxford, New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016. xii + 183 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4742-5941-5.)

  • Goldstein, Lyle J. Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015. vi + 387 pp. £21.00. ISBN 978-1-62616-160-3.)

  • Golub, Philip S. East Asia's Reemergence. (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. xii + 196 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6466-8.)

  • Greitens, Sheena Chestnut. Dictators and their Secret Police: Coercive Institutions and State Violence. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix + 324 pp. ISBN 978-1-316-50531-1.)

  • Han, Enze. Contestation and Adaptation: The Politics of National Identity in China. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. [2013] xiii + 207 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-062401-9.)

  • Handler-Spitz, Rivi, Lee, Pauline C. and Saussy, Haun (eds. and trans.). A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xxxvi + 366 pp. $30.00; £22.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16613-3.)

  • Henriot, Christian. Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xi + 484 pp. £48.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9746-7.)

  • Ho, Wing Shan. Screening Post-1989 China: Critical Analysis of Chinese Film and Television. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 227 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-51760-9.)

  • Hong, Jeehee. Theater of the Dead: A Social Turn in Chinese Funerary Art, 1000–1400. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2016. ix + 234 pp. $59.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5537-6.)

  • Hou, Xiaojia. Negotiating Socialism in Rural China: Mao, Peasants, and Local Cadres in Shanxi 1949–1953. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. viii + 275 pp. ISBN 978-1-939161-79-6.)

  • Jenco, Leigh (ed.). Chinese Thought as Global Theory: Diversifying Knowledge Production in the Social Sciences and Humanities (New York: SUNY Press, 2016. xii + 250 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-1-4384-6045-1.)

  • Kahn, Matthew E., and Zheng, Siqi. Blue Skies over Beijing: Economic Growth and the Environment in China. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2016. ix + 271 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16936-1.)

  • Kang, Xiaofei and Sutton, Donald S.. Contesting the Yellow Dragon: Ethnicity, Religion, and the State in the Sino-Tibetan Borderland. (Leiden: Brill, 2016. €168.00 [ebook]. E-ISBN 9789004319233.)

  • King, Amy. China–Japan Relations after World War Two: Empire, Industry and War, 1949–1971. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv + 261 pp. £64.99; $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-13164-4.)

  • Kirton, John J. China's G20 Leadership. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xiv + 191 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-0-472-47948-8.)

  • Lewis, Tania, Martin, Fran and Sun, Wanning. Telemodernities: Television and Transforming Lives in Asia. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2016. viii + 314 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6204-3.)

  • Li, Hongmei. Advertising and Consumer Culture in China. (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. x + 297 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-7117-8.)

  • Li, Jie, and Zhang, Enhua (eds.). Red Legacies in China: Cultural Afterlives of the Communist Revolution. (London and Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2016. xii + 409 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-73718-1.)

  • Lin, Syaru Shirley. Taiwan's China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan's Cross-Strait Economic Policy. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xx + 282 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9928-7.)

  • Luk, Sabrina Ching Yuen. Financing Healthcare in China: Towards Universal Health Insurance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 137 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-84439-1.)

  • Madokoro, Laura. Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 331 pp. £33.95. ISBN 978-0-674-97151-6.)

  • Ng, Kenny Kwok-kan. The Lost Geopoetic Horizon of Li Jieren: The Crisis of Writing Chengdu in Revolutionary China. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016. xiii + 305 pp. ISBN 978-0-0429-264-2.)

  • Padovani, Florence. Development-Induced Displacement in India and China: A Comparative Look at the Burdens of Growth. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2016. lxvii + 207 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-2903-7.)

  • Panigrahi, Devendra Nath. The Himalayas and India–China Relations. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 159 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-138-19117-4.)

  • Pedersen, Bent Lerbæk. Catalogue of Yao Manuscripts. (Copenhagen: NIAS Press [Det Kongelike Bibliotek], 2016. xii + 126 pp. ISBN 978-87-7694-184-0.)

  • Pei, Minxin. China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2016. 365 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-73729-7.)

  • Peterson, Willard J. (ed.). The Cambridge History of China. Volume 9: The Ch'ing Dynasty to 1800 (Part 2). (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xv + 830 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-24335-3.)

  • Pun, Ngai. Migrant Labor in China. (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. xi + 204 pp. ISBN 978-0-7456-7175-8.)

  • Qin, Yaqing, and Zhirui, Chen. Future in Retrospect: New Explorations into China's Diplomatic History (China Foreign Affairs Review). (Hackensack, NJ: World Century, 2016. xvii + 321 pp. £103.00; $128.00. ISBN 978-1-938134-83-8.)

  • Ringen, Stein. The Perfect Dictatorship: China in the 21st Century. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xiii + 191 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-988-8208-94-4.)

  • Rojas, Carlos, and Litzinger, Ralph A. (eds.). Ghost Protocol: Development and Displacement in Global China. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. vii + 260 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6193-0.)

  • Ross, Robert S., and Bekkevold, Jo Inge. China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2016. xxii + 306 pp. £23.00. ISBN 978-1-62616-298-3.)

  • Shambaugh, David. China's Future. (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. xviii + 203 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-0713-9.)

  • Shapiro, Judith. China's Environmental Challenges (2nd edition). (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016 [2012]. xxiv + 228 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-9864-9.)

  • Schubert, Gunter (ed.). Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xvii + 570 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78187-0.)

  • Wang, Leslie K. Outsourced Children: Orphanage and Adoption in Globalizing China. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. x + 190 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-1-5036-0011-9.)

  • Wei, Shen. Shadow Banking in China: Risk, Regulation and Policy. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. xiv + 455 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-78471-676-9.)

  • White, Lynn T. III. Democratization in Hong Kong – and China. (Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 2016. x + 274 pp. ISBN 978-1-62637-535-2.)

  • Wu, Jinglian, and Guochuan, Mao (trans. by Hua, Xiaofeng and Hearst, Nancy). Whither China? Restarting the Reform Agenda. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 331 pp. £25.99. ISBN 978-0-19-022315-1.)

  • Zhang, Weiwei. The China Horizon: Glory and Dream of a Civilizational State. (Hackensack, NJ: World Century, 2016. xv + 178 pp. £17.00; $24.00. ISBN 978-1-938134-73-9.)