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.

• Adamson, Bob, Nixon, Jon and Su, Feng (eds.), The Reorientation of Higher Education: Challenging the East–West Dichotomy. (Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, The University of Hong Kong; Springer, 2012, ix + 314 pp. ISBN 978-988-1785-27-5.)

• Aoki, Masahiko, and Wu, Jinglian, The Chinese Economy in Transition. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012, xiv + 298 pp. £25.99. ISBN 978-1-137-03428-1.)

• Bell, Stephen and Feng, Hui, The Rise of the People's Bank of China: The Politics of Institutional Change. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 376 pp. £40.95, ISBN 978-0-674-07249-7.)

• Brady, Anne-Marie, and Brown, Douglas (eds.), Foreigners and Foreign Institutions in Republican China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xviii + 277 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-52865-8.)

• Chen, Ya-chen, Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium: Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012, xvii + 293 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-3908-0.)

• Cheng, Eileen J., Literary Remains: Death, Trauma, and Lu Xun's Refusal to Mourn. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. 313 pp. £54.00. ISBN 978-1-8248-3595-8.)

• Cho, Mun Young, The Specter of “the People”: Urban Poverty in Northeast China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xxi + 207 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7864-2.)

• Chou, Eva Shan, Memory, Violence, Queues: Lu Xun Interprets China. (Ann Arbor, MI: Association for Asian Studies, 2012, viii + 333 pp. ISBN 978-0-9243-0468-2.)

• Copper, John F., Taiwan: Nation-State or Province? (Sixth edition). (Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2013. xiv + 259 pp. ISBN 978-0-8133-4692-2.)

• Davin, Delia, Mao: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvii + 142 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-958866-4.)

• Fan, Kun, Arbitration in China: A Legal and Cultural Analysis. (Oxford and Portland, ON: Hart Publishing, 2013. li + 314 pp. ISBN 978-1-84946-377-5.)

• Fewsmith, Joseph, The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xi + 219 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-61254-9.)

• Freeman, Chas W., Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige. (Charlottesville, VA: Just World Books, 2012. 358 pp. $28.00. ISBN 978-1-935982-26-5.)

• Fuller, Douglas B. and Rubinstein, Murray A. (eds.), Technology Transfer between the US, China and Taiwan: Moving Knowledge. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. x + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-64220-0.)

• Gladston, Paul, Avant-Garde Art Groups in China, 1979–1989. (Bristol and Chicago: Intellect, 2013. 194 pp. ISBN 978-1-84150-715-6.)

• Goofman, Brina, and Goodman, David S. G. (eds.), Twentieth-century Colonialism and China: Localities, the Everyday, and the World. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012, xiii + 256 pp. £26.99. ISBN 978-0-415-68799-7.)

• Gurtov, Mel, Will This Be China's Century? A Skeptic's View. (Boulder CO: Lynne Rienner, 2013. ix + 205 pp. ISBN 978-1-58826-874-7.)

• Hardy, Alfredo Toro, The World Turned Upside Down: The Complex Partnership Between China and Latin America. (Kackensack, NJ: World Century, 2013. xxiv + 243 pp. $98.00; £65.00. ISBN 978-981-4452-56-4.)

• Hayhoe, Ruth, Li, Jun, Lin, Jing and Zha, Qiang, Portraits of 21st Century Chinese Universities: In the Move to Mass Higher Education. (Hong Kong: Comparative Education Research Centre, Hong Kong University, 2011, xv + 483 pp. ISBN 978-988-1785-23-7.)

• Hua, Wen, Buying Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery in China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xiii + 253 pp. ISBN 978-988-8139-82-8.)

• Jager, Sheila Miyoshi, Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea. (New York and London: W.W. Norton, 2013. xvi + 605 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-393-06849-8.)

• Keane, Michael, Creative Industries in China: Art, Design and Media. (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2013. xvi + 233 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6101-8.)

• Kim, Jaesok, Chinese Labor in a Korean Factory: Class, Ethnicity and Productivity on the Shop Floor in Globalizing China. (Stanford: University of California Press, 2013. xii + 290 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8454-2.)

• King, Kenneth, China's Aid and Soft Power in Africa: The Case of Education and Training. (Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2013. xvii + 238 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-84701-065-0.)

• Lee, Khoon Choi, Golden Dragon and Purple Phoenix: The Chinese and Their Multi-Ethnic Descendants in Southeast Asia. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xviii+ 584 pp. $78.00; £51.00. ISBN 978-981-4383-43-1.)

• Link, Perry, Madsen, Richard P. and Pickowicz, Paul G. (eds.), Restless China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. vii + 290 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-1511-5.)

• Lora-Wainwright, Anna, Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2013. xv + 323 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-1-8248-3682-5.)

• Nadkarni, V. and Noonan, Norma C., Emerging Powers in a Comparative Perspective: The Political and Economic Rise of the BRIC Countries. (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2013. 239 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-4411-1986-5.)

• Rene, Helena K., China's Sent-Down Generation: Public Administration and the Legacies of Mao's Rustication Program. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2013. xiii + 229 pp. £26.00. ISBN 978-1-58901-987-4.)

• Rosefielde, Steven, Asian Economic Systems. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xviii + 276 pp. $68.00; £45.00. ISBN 978-981-4425-38-4.)

• Roy, Denny, Return of the Dragon: Rising China and Regional Security. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. vi + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15900-5.)

• Schoenhals, Michael, Spying for the People: Mao's Secret Agents, 1949–1967. (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2013. xi + 266 pp. £19.99; $29.99. ISBN 978-1-107-60344-8.)

• Sheldon, Peter, Kim, Sunghoon, Li, Yiqiong and Warner, Malcolm (eds.), China's Changing Workplace: Dynamism, Diversity and Disparity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011, xviii + 326 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-83826-9.)

• Shirley, Ian, and Neill, Carol, Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns Asian and Pacific Cities: Development Patterns (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xix + 292 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-63204-1.)

• So, Billy K. L. and Zelin, Madeleine (eds.), New Narratives of Urban Space in Republican Chinese Cities: Emerging Social, Legal and Governance Orders. (Leiden: Brill, 2013. xii + 284 pp. €112.00; $156.00. ISBN 978-90-04-24990-5.)

• Stern, Rachel E., Environmental Litigation in China: A Study in Political Ambivalence. (CambridgeUniversity Press, 2013. 300 pp. £60.00; $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-02002-3.)

• Sun, Anna, Confucianism as a World Religion: Contested Histories and Contemporary Realities. (Princeton University Press, 2013. xix + 244 pp. £24.95, ISBN 978-0-691-15557-9.)

• Tanner, Harold M., The Battle for Manchuria and the Fate of China: Siping, 1946. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2013. xv + 266 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-253-00723-0.)

• The National Institute for Defense Studies, East Asian Strategic Review 2013. (Tokyo: The Japan Times, 2013. xviii + 328 pp. ¥3,000. ISBN 978-4-7890-1526-4.)

• Unschuld, Paul U., The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History. (London: Reaktion Books, 2013. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-78023-168-6.)

• Wang, Gungwu, Renewal: The Chinese State and the New Global History. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2013. ix + 159 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-962-996-536-5.)

• Wang, Luolin and Zhu, Ling (eds.), Breaking Out of the Poverty Trap: Case Studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu. (Kackensack, NJ: World Century, 2013. xvi + 270 pp. $105.00; £69.00. ISBN 978-1-938134-07-4.)

• Whalley, John (ed.), China's Trade, Exchange Rate and Industrial Policy Structure. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. vi + 356 pp. $118.00; 78.00. ISBN 978-981-4401-87-6.)

• Wu, Yanrui (ed.), Regional Development and Economic Growth in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xvii + 331 pp. $108.00; £71.00. ISBN 978-981-4439-84-8.)

• Zhang, Huajun, John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform: Cultivating Individuality. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2013. ix + 181 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4792-4.)

• Zhang, Jun (ed.), Unfinished Reforms in the Chinese Economy. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xvii + 502 pp. $138.00; £91.00. ISBN 978-981-4434-00-3.)

• Zheng, Yongnian and Ping, Yew Chiew (eds.), Hong Kong under Chinese Rule: Economic Integration and Political Gridlock. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xii + 274 pp. $92.00; £61.00. ISBN 978-981-4447-66-9.)

• Zhou, Jiehong and Jin, Shaosheng, Food Safety Management in China: A Perspective from Food Quality Control System. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xi + 228 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-981-4447-75-1.)

• Zhu, Qihua, China 1927: Memoir of a Debacle. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2013. xviii + 324 pp. $75.00. ISBN 978-1-937385-14-9.)