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.

• Brown, William, and Kai, Chang (eds.). The Emerging Industrial Relations of China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv + 250 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-11441-8.)

• Buchan, Eugenie. A Few Planes for China: The Birth of the Flying Tigers. (Lebanon, NH: ForeEdge, 2017. xv + 252 pp. ISBN 978-1-61168-866-5.)

• Carrico, Kevin. The Great Han: Race, Nationalism and Tradition in China Today. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2017. xiv + 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-29550-6.)

• Carrillo, Beatriz, Hood, Johanna and Kadetz, Paul (eds.). Handbook of Welfare in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2017. xiii + 443 pp. ISBN 978-1-78347-273-4.)

• Chan, Pedith Pui. The Making of a Modern Art World: Institutionalisation and Legitimisation of Guohua in Republican Shanghai. (Leiden: Brill, 2017. xi + 374 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-33809-8.)

• Chen, Shuang. State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xviii + 342 pp. £54.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9903-4.)

• Coker, Christopher. The Improbable War: China, the United States and the Logic of Great Power Conflict. (London: Hurst & Company, 2017. xiii + 217 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978-1-84904-878-1.)

• deLisle, Jacques, and Goldstein, Avery (eds.). China's Global Engagement: Cooperation, Competition, and Influence in the 21st Century. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017. viii + 439 pp. ISBN 978-0-9157-2969-3.)

• Ding, Guomin (trans. Jianxun, Gao and Yun, Liu). Solving the Problem of “Agriculture, Farmer and Rural Area” by Rule of Law. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Hamilton Books, 2017. xiv + 522 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-7618-6920-7.)

• Gao, Qin. Welfare, Work, and Poverty: Social Assistance in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xiii + 157 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-021813-3.)

• Hooper, Beverley. Foreigners under Mao: Western Lives in China, 1949–1976. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. xi + 292 pp. ISBN 978-988-8208-74-6.)

• Hu, Minghui, and Elverskog, Johan (eds.). Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press. 2016. viii + 328 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-900-8.)

• Kipnis, Andrew. From Village to City: Social Transformation in a Chinese County Seat. (Berkeley, University of California Press, 2016, $29.95; £24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-28971-0.)

• Larson, Wendy. Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017. xv + 420 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-975-6.)

• Lee, Ming-Huei (ed. Jones, David). Confucianism: Its Roots and Global Significance. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2017. xiii + 156 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-6730-0.)

• Leightner, Jonathan. Ethics, Efficiency and Macroeconomics in China: From Mao to Xi. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. ix + 205 pp. £29.99. ISBN 978-1-138-63092-5.)

• Lo, Chi. Demystifying China's Mega Trends: The Driving Forces That Will Shake Up China and the World. (Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2017. xvii + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-78714-410-1.)

• Lora-Wainwright, Anna. Resigned Activism: Living with Pollution in Rural China. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. xv + 228 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-262-53385-0.)

• McAdams, A. James. Vanguard of the Revolution: The Global idea of the Communist Party. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2017. xvii + 564 pp. £27.95. ISBN 978-0-691-16894-4.)

• Meng, Jinghui (ed. Conceison, Claire). I Love XXX and Other Plays. (London, New York and Calcutta: Seagull Books, 2017. viii + 355 pp. $45.00; £40.50. ISBN 978-0-85742-384-9.)

• O'Hanlon, Michael E., and Steinberg, James. A Glass Half Full? Rebalance, Reassurance, and Resolve in the U.S.–China Strategic Relationship. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2017. 104 pp. £16.50. ISBN 978-0-8157-3110-8.)

• Oxfeld, Ellen. Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2017. xiii + 256 pp. £27.95. ISBN 978-0-5202-9352-5.)

• Pino, Angel, and Rabut, Isabelle (eds.). Le cheval à trois jambes et autres nouvelles taiwanaises traduites du chinois. (Paris: You Feng, 2016. 332 pp. ISBN 978-2-84279-758-4.)

• Pino, Angel, and Rabut, Isabelle (eds.). Le petit bourg aux papayers et autres nouvelles taiwanaises traduites du chinois ou du japonais. (Paris: You Feng, 2016. 380 pp. ISBN 978-2-84279-757-7.)

• Rao, Nancy Yunhwa. Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2017. xiv + 415 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-0-252-08230-0.)

• Repnikova, Maria. Media Politics in China: Improvising Power under Authoritarianism. (Cambridge University Press, 2017. xiii + 271 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-19598-1.)

• Sapio, Flora, Trevaskes, Susan Biddulph, Sarah and Nesossi, Elisa (eds.). Justice: The China Experience. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. viii + 402 pp. ISBN 978-1-1071-9042-9.)

• Shi, Lihong. Choosing Daughters: Family Change in Rural China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xi + 189 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-1-5036-0293-9.)

• Verma, Raj. India and China in Africa: A Comparative Perspective of the Oil Industry. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xxi + 279 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-12193-5.)

• Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi. The Nanking Atrocity, 1937–38: Complicating the Picture (second edition). (New York and Oxford, Bergahn, 2017 [2007]. lvii + 437 pp. ISBN 978-1-78533-674-4.)

• Wei, Shuge. News under Fire: China's Propaganda against Japan in the English-Language Press, 1928–1941. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2017. xii + 288 pp. $45.00; £37.95. ISBN 978-988-8390-61-8.)

• Wood, Frances. Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to Present. (London: Head of Zeus, 2017. 308 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-786-69452-2.)

• Wu, Chongqing, and Matthew, A. Hale. The Path to Sun Village: Gods, Ghosts, and People in a Post-Revolutionary Society. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2017. xv + 311 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-34871-4.)

• Xu, Jing. The Good Child: Moral Development in a Chinese Preschool. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xiii + 231 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-1-5036-0243-4.)

• Ye, Min. China–South Korea Relations in the New Era. (Lexington Books, 2017. xiii + 183 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9856-8.)

• Yu, Zhansui. Chinese Avant-Garde Fiction: Quest for Historicity and Transcendent Truth. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2017. viii + 240 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-968-8.)

• Zhou, Zhang-Yue. Achieving Food Security in China: The Challenges Ahead. (London and New York: Routledge, 2017. xii + 156 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-80747-1.)