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.

• Appelbaum, Richard P., Cao, Cong, Han, Xueying, Parker, Rachel and Simon, Denis. Innovation in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2018. xix + 242 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-8957-9.)

• Boon, Hoo Tiang. China's Global Identity: Considering the Responsibilities of Great Power. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018. xxxi + 196 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-62661-660-4.)

• Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik, and Rutter, Koen. From Accelerated Accumulation to Socialist Market Economy in China. (Leiden: Brill, 2017. xiii + 2017 pp. €138.00; $159.00 ISBN: 978-90-04-33008-5.)

• Cao, Cong. GMO China: How Global Debates Transformed China's Agricultural Biotechnology Politics. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xx + 288 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17167-0.)

• Chang, Eileen (intr. Perry Link). Naked Earth. (New York: New York Review Books, 2019 [1956]. xiii + 312 pp. £9.99; $16.95. ISBN 978-1-59017-834-8.)

• Chang, Eileen (trans. Pan, Jane Weizhen and Merz, Martin). Little Reunions. (New York: New York Review Books, 2019 [2009]. ix + 332 pp. £9.99; $16.95. ISBN 978-1-68137-127-6.)

• Chong, Kimberly. Best Practice: Management Consulting and the Ethics of Financialization in China. (Durham, CT and London: Duke University Press, 2018. ix + 248 pp. $25.95; £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4780-0088-4.)

• Clarke, Michael. Terrorism and Counter-terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy Dimensions. (London: Hurst and Company, 2018. xvi + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-84904-877-4.)

• Dai, Jinhua (edited and with an Introduction by Lisa Rofel). After the Post-Cold War: The Future of Chinese History. (Durham, CT and London: Duke University Press, 2018. xi + 199 pp. $24.95; £18.99. ISBN 978-1-4780-0051-8.)

• Goldstein, Jonathan, and Patterson, Wayne (eds.). Diminishing Conflict, Fostering Reconciliation: Essays in East Asian History in Honor of Hilary Conroy. (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia. 2018. vi + 192 pp. ISBN 978-1-937385-57-6.)

• Hershatter, Gail. Women and China's Revolutions. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. xx + 397 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-1569-6.)

• Ho, Elaine Lynn-Ee. Citizens in Motion: Emigration, Immigration, and Re-Migration across China's Borders. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. xiv + 162 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-1-5036-0666-1.)

• Ho, Peter. Unmaking China's Development: The Function and Credibility of Institutions. (Cambridge, UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xx + 316 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-107-09410-9.)

• Ho, Selina. Thirsty Cities: Social Contracts and Public Goods Provision in China and India. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xv + 295 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42782-1.)

• Jenkins, Rhys. How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xix + 407 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-873851-0.)

• Köll, Elisabeth. Railroads and the Transformation of China. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. xi + 396 pp. £31.95. ISBN 978-0-674-36817-0.)

• Kutcher, Norman A. Eunuch and Emperor in the Great Age of Qing Rule. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2018. xxv + 317 pp. $75.00; £58.00. ISBN 978-0-520-29752-4.)

• Loh, Christine. Underground Front: The Chinese Communist Party in Hong Kong (second edition). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018 [2010]. xii + 360 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-73-7.)

• Maçães, Bruno. Belt and Road: A Chinese World Order. (London: Hurst and Company. 2018. v + 228 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-1-78738-002-8.)

• Mühlhahn, Klaus. Making China Modern: From the Great Song to Xi Jinping. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2019. xiii + 717 pp. £28.95. ISBN 978-0-674-73735-8.)

• Nylan, Michael. The Chinese Pleasure Book. (New York: Zone Books, 2018. 453 pp. ISBN 978-1-9421-3013-0.)

• Paul, T. V. (ed.). The China–India Rivalry in the Globalization Era. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2018. ix + 286 pp. £28.00. ISBN 978-1-62616-600-4.)

• Rachman, Gideon. Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline from Obama to Trump and Beyond. (New York: Other Press, 2018 [2016]. 323 pp. $17.95. ISBN 978-159051-968-4.)

• Scott, Ian, and Gong, Ting. Corruption Prevention and Governance in Hong Kong. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xiii + 229 pp. ISBN 978-0-8153-9513-3.)

• Shan, Patrick Fuliang. Yuan Shikai: A Reappraisal. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2018. ix + 321 pp. £44.00. ISBN 978-0-7748-3778-1.)

• Tillman, Margaret Mih. Raising China's Revolutionaries: Modernizing Childhood for Cosmopolitan Nationalists and Liberated Comrades, 1920s–1950s. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xx + 339 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18558-5.)

• Wang, Meng (trans. Hong, Zhu and Haiming, Liu). Wang Meng, A Life: The Memoir of One of Contemporary China's Greatest Writers and Former Minister of Culture. (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2018. xiv + 389 pp. $32.50. ISBN 978-1-937385-60-6.)

• Wielander, Gerda, and Hird, Derek (eds.). Chinese Discourses on Happiness. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. vi + 233 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-72-0.)