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.

• Bregolat, Eugenio (trans. McFarlane, Joyce), The Second Chinese Revolution. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi + 343 pp. £78.00. ISBN 978-1-137-47597-8.)

• Brown, Claudia, Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xv + 336 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99395-9.)

• Chaffee, John W., and Twitchett, Denis (eds.), The Cambridge History of China. Volume 5. Part 2: Sung China, 960–1279. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvii + 957 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-24330-8.)

• Che, Siyuan, Yee, Craig L. and Tsao, Jung Ying (eds.), Modern Ink: The Art of Xugu. (Berkeley, CA: The Mozhai Foundation and Hawai'I University Press, 2014. 110 pp. £38.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-5146-0.)

• Chen, An, The Transformation of Governance in Rural China: Market, Finance, and Political Authority. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xv + 391 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-08175-8.)

• Clart, Philip, and Scott, Gregory Adam (eds.), Religious Publishing and Print Culture in Modern China, 1800–2012. (Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2014. vi + 349 pp. $140.00; €99.95. ISBN 978-1-61451-298-1.)

• Cooney, Sean, Biddulph, Sarah and Zhu, Ying, Law and Fair Work in China (paperback edition). (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xiii + 189 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-81567-4.)

• deLisle, Jacques, and Goldstein, Avery (eds.), China's Challenges. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. vi + 317 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-8292-5.)

• Domenach, Jean-Luc, China's Uncertain Future (paperback edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xii + 192 pp. $24.00.; £16.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15225-9.)

• Eichengreen, Barry, and Kawai, Masahiro (eds.), Renminbi Internationalization: Achievements, Prospects, and Challenges. (Tokyo: Asian Development Bank Institute; Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press 2015. x + 388 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-0-8157-2611-1.)

• Elleman, Bruce A., Taiwan Straits: Crisis in Asia and the Role of the U.S. Navy. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xiii + 238 pp. ISBN 978-0-8108-8889-0.)

• Feng, Menglong (trans. Yang, Shuhui and Yang, Yunqin), Sanyan Stories: Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiv + 230 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99422-2.)

• Frazier, Robeson Taj, The East is Black: Cold War China in the Black Radical Imagination. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2015. xiv + 314 pp. £25.95. ISBN 978-0-8223-5768-1.)

• Galtung, Marte Kjær, and Stenslie, Stig, 49 Myths about China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xvii + 247 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-3622-6.)

• Garfield, Jay L., Engaging Buddhism: Why It Matters to Philosophy. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xix + 376 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-020434-1.)

• Ge, Liangyan, The Scholar and the State: Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xi + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99417-8.)

• Hansen, Mette Halskov, Educating the Chinese Individual: Life in a Rural Boarding School. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. viii + 222 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99408-6.)

• Hearns-Branaman, Jesse Owen, The Political Economy of News in China: Manufacturing Harmony. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2015. vi + 153 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-8292-5.)

• Hockx, Michel, Internet Literature in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xiii + 251 pp. £27.50. ISBN 978-0-231-16082-7.)

• Hoppens, Robert, The China Problem in Postwar Japan: Japanese National Identity and Sino-Japanese Relations. (London, Delhi, New York and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2015. xi + 298 pp. ISBN 978-1-4725-7546-3.)

• Hosburgh, Nicola, China and Global Nuclear Order: From Estrangement to Active Engagement. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. x + 234 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-19-870611-3.)

• Idema, Wilt L., The Metamorphosis of Tian Xian Pei: Local Opera under the Revolution (1949–1956). (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015. x + 344 pp. $52.00.)

• Jeffreys, Elaine, with Yu, Haiqing, Sex in China. (Oxford: Polity Press, 2015. xi + 214 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-5614-4.)

• Kimura, Koichiro, The Growth of Chinese Electronics Firms: Globalization and Organizations. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xvii + 174 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-137-39140-7.)

• Kleutghen, Kristina, Imperial Illusions: Crossing Pictorial Boundaries in the Qing Palaces. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xv + 379 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99410-9.)

• Kong, Shuyu, Popular Media, Social Emotion and Public Discourse in Contemporary China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xiii + 154 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-71989-6.)

• Kuhlmann, Dirk, “Das Fremde im eigenen Lande”: Zur Historiographie des Christentums in China von Liang Qichao (1873–1929) bis Zhang Kaiyuan (geb. 1926). (Sankt Augustin: Institut Monumenta Serica, 2014. xiv + 452 pp. ISBN 978-3-8050-0624-8.)

• Lary, Diana, China's Civil War: A Social History, 1945–1949. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 283 pp. £19.99; $29.99. ISBN 978-1-107-67826-2.)

• Li, Lan, Popular Religion in Modern China: The New Role of Nuo. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. ix + 296 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-1-4724-3678-2.)

• Lin, Wei-Ping, Materializing Magic Power: Chinese Popular Religion in Villages and Cities. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. xiv + 203 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-50436-3.)

• Liou, Chih-Shian, and Ding, Arthur S. (eds.), China Dreams: China's New Leadership and Future Impacts. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. xxii + 292 pp. $110.00; £73.00. ISBN 978-981-4611-13-8.)

• Liu, Yang (ed.), Beyond the First Emperor's Mausoleum: New Perspectives on Qin Art. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. 240 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-0-9893718-6-5.)

• Luo, Manling, Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xvi + 242 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99414-7.)

• Lynch, Daniel C., China's Futures: PRC Elites Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xx + 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9419-0.)

• Mathews, John A., Greening of Capitalism: How Asia is Driving the Next Great Transformation. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xxi + 346 pp. £41.00. ISBN 978-0-7391-8292-5.)

• Naftali, Orna, Children, Rights and Modernity in China: Raising Self-Governing Citizens. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. x + 173 pp. £61.00. ISBN 978-1-137-34658-2.)

• Pietz, David A., The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. xi + 367 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8.)

• Price, Susanna, and Robinson, Kathryn (eds.), Making a Difference: Social Assessment Policy and Praxis and Its Emergence in China. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn, 2015. xiv + 299 pp. ISBN 978-1-78238-457-1.)

• Schuman, Michael, Confucius and the World He Created. (New York: Basic Books, 2015. xxv + 285 pp. $28.99. ISBN 978-0-465-02551-0.)

• Schwarcz, Vera, A Quest for Truth in China, and Beyond. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xiv + 171 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3874-4.)

• Shen, Yiping, Public Discourses of Contemporary China: The Narration of the Nation in Popular Literatures, Film, and Television. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. ix + 227 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-137-49742-0.)

• Small, Andrew, The China–Pakistan Axis: Asia's New Geopolitics. (London: Hurst, 2015. xvi + 319 pp. ISBN 978-1-849-04341-0.)

• Sze, Julie, Fantasy Islands: Chinese Dreams and Ecological Fears in an Age of Climate Crisis. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2015. 235 pp. £18.95. ISBN 978-0-520-28448-7.)

• Taylor, Monique, The Chinese State, Oil and Energy Security. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xiv + 213 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-137-35054-1.)

• Ter Haar, Barend J., Practicing Scripture: A Lay Buddhist Movement in Late Imperial China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. x + 298 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3927-7.)

• Terhalle, Maximilian, The Transition of Global Order: Legitimacy and Contestation. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xi + 267 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-137-38689-2.)

• Tilt, Bryan, Dams and Development in China: The Moral Economy of Water and Power. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xv + 259 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-1700.1-6.)

• Walder, Andrew G., China Under Mao: A Revolution Derailed. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2015. xiv + 413 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-674-05815-6.)

• Wielander, Gerda, Christian Values in Communist China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xx + 193 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-52223-6.)

• Xiao, Hong (trans. by Goldblatt, Howard), Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin. (Seattle, WA and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xix + 134 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99423-9.)

• Zang, Xiaowei, Ethnicity in China. (Oxford: Polity Press, 2015. ixxx + 236 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-962-996-593-8.)

• Zee, A., Swallowing Clouds: A Playful Journey through Chinese Culture, Language, and Cuisine (new edition). (Seattle, WA, and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. 378 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99420-8.)