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Books Received

(October–December 2009)

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The China Quarterly , Volume 201 , March 2010, pp. 228 - 229
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2010

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.

Assandri, Friederike and Martins, Dora (eds.), From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 158 pp. €27.50. ISBN 978-90-5336-795-1.) Bräutigam, Deborah, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 397 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-19-955022-7.) Callahan, William A., China: The Pessoptimist Nation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 266 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954995-5.) Chung, Jae Ho and Lam, Tao-Chiu (eds.), China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in their Sub-National Hierarchy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiii + 219 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-54788-8.) Gardella, Robert (ed.), Missions to China's Heartland: The Letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920–1941. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2009. xvii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-1-878282-91-0.) Guo, Rongxing, How the Chinese Economy Works (Third revised edition). (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. xxviii + 380 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-230-58100-5.) Holslag, Jonathan, China and India: Prospects for Peace. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $37.50; £26.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15042-2.) Hsing, You-tien and Lee, Ching Kwan (eds.), Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xii + 254 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49137-2.) Hung, Ho-fung (ed.), China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii + 212 pp. £13.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-9308-7.) Kavalski, Emilian (ed.), China and the Global Politics of Regionalization. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009. xi + 248 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-7546-7599-0.) Knowles, Caroline and Harper, Douglas, Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes and Journeys. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 288 pp. £13.00. ISBN 978-0-226-44857-2.) Lam, Peng Er and Lim, Tai Wei, The Rise of China and India: A New Asian Drama. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. viii + 169 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-981-4280-33-4.) Lanqing, Li (trans. by Yuan, Ling and Siying, Zhang), Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-up Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii + 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-801692-2.) Zhehou, Li (trans. by Samei, Maija Bell), The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press, 2010. xix + 257 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3307-7.) Li, Xiaoxiong, Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 308 pp. £52.50, ISBN 978-0-87413-054-6.) Lim, Bliss Vua, Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv + 345 pp. £17.99, ISBN 978-0-8223-4510-7.) Lim, Tai Wei, Oil in China: From Self-Reliance to Internationalization. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xii + 171 pp. £59.00. ISBN 978-981-4273-76-3.) McMahon, Keith, Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press, 2010. vii + 215 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3376-3.) Ng, Kwai Hang, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxiii + 328 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8047-6165-9.) Pong, David (ed.). Encyclopedia of Modern China. (Detroit, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, Waterville and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, about 2,500 pp., 4 volumes, $495.00. ISBN 978-0-684-31567-6.) Richardson, Sophie, China, Cambodia and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x + 332 pp. $50.00; £34.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14386-8.) Sharma, Shalendra D., China and India in the Age of Globalization. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 321 pp. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-521-73136-2.) Sheng, Andrew, From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii + 489 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-13415-6.) Tam, Kwok-kan and Yip, Terry Siu-han (eds.), Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009. xxx + 261 pp. £37.50; €42.00. ISBN 978-962-996-399-6.) Tilt, Bryan, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xvi + 216 pp. $29.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15001-9.) Tong, James W., Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999–2005. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 282 pp. £32.50, ISBN 978-0-19-537728-6.) Tow, William T., Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional–Global Nexus. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 370 pp. $32.99. ISBN 978-0-521-75882-6.) Tsai, Weipin, Reading Shenbao: Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China, 1919–37. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xxi + 249 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-01982-9.) Walder, Andrew G., The Beijing Red Guard Movement: Fractured Rebellion. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii + 400 pp. $39.95; £29.95; €36.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03503-4.) Wu, Fei, Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xv + 216 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55171-7.) Wu, Shicun and Zou, Keyuan, Maritime Security in the South China Sea: Regional Implications and International Cooperation. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. xi + 272 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-7727-7.) Wyatt, Don J., The Blacks of Pre-Modern China. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 198 pp. $42.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8.) Yan, Yunxiang, The Individualization of Chinese Society. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2009. xl + 304 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-84788-378-0.) Zhang, Yingjin, Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi, 2010. xii + 257 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3337-4.) Zhao, Litao and Lin, Tin Seng (eds.), China's New Social Policy. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xvi + 228 pp. £66.00. ISBN 978-981-4277-73-0.)

References

Assandri, Friederike and Martins, Dora (eds.), From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 158 pp. €27.50. ISBN 978-90-5336-795-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bräutigam, Deborah, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 397 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-19-955022-7.)Google Scholar
Callahan, William A., China: The Pessoptimist Nation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 266 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954995-5.)Google Scholar
Chung, Jae Ho and Lam, Tao-Chiu (eds.), China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in their Sub-National Hierarchy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiii + 219 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-54788-8.)Google Scholar
Gardella, Robert (ed.), Missions to China's Heartland: The Letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920–1941. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2009. xvii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-1-878282-91-0.)Google Scholar
Guo, Rongxing, How the Chinese Economy Works (Third revised edition). (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. xxviii + 380 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-230-58100-5.)Google Scholar
Holslag, Jonathan, China and India: Prospects for Peace. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $37.50; £26.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15042-2.)Google Scholar
Hsing, You-tien and Lee, Ching Kwan (eds.), Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xii + 254 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49137-2.)Google Scholar
Hung, Ho-fung (ed.), China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii + 212 pp. £13.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-9308-7.)Google Scholar
Kavalski, Emilian (ed.), China and the Global Politics of Regionalization. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009. xi + 248 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-7546-7599-0.)Google Scholar
Knowles, Caroline and Harper, Douglas, Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes and Journeys. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. 288 pp. £13.00. ISBN 978-0-226-44857-2.)Google Scholar
Lam, Peng Er and Lim, Tai Wei, The Rise of China and India: A New Asian Drama. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. viii + 169 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-981-4280-33-4.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lanqing, Li (trans. by Yuan, Ling and Siying, Zhang), Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-up Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii + 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-801692-2.)Google Scholar
Zhehou, Li (trans. by Samei, Maija Bell), The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press, 2010. xix + 257 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3307-7.)Google Scholar
Li, Xiaoxiong, Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s. (Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2009. 308 pp. £52.50, ISBN 978-0-87413-054-6.)Google Scholar
Lim, Bliss Vua, Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv + 345 pp. £17.99, ISBN 978-0-8223-4510-7.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lim, Tai Wei, Oil in China: From Self-Reliance to Internationalization. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xii + 171 pp. £59.00. ISBN 978-981-4273-76-3.)Google Scholar
McMahon, Keith, Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi Press, 2010. vii + 215 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3376-3.)Google Scholar
Ng, Kwai Hang, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxiii + 328 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8047-6165-9.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pong, David (ed.). Encyclopedia of Modern China. (Detroit, New York, San Francisco, New Haven, Waterville and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, about 2,500 pp., 4 volumes, $495.00. ISBN 978-0-684-31567-6.)Google Scholar
Richardson, Sophie, China, Cambodia and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x + 332 pp. $50.00; £34.50, ISBN 978-0-231-14386-8.)Google Scholar
Sharma, Shalendra D., China and India in the Age of Globalization. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 321 pp. $27.99. ISBN 978-0-521-73136-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sheng, Andrew, From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii + 489 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-13415-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tam, Kwok-kan and Yip, Terry Siu-han (eds.), Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009. xxx + 261 pp. £37.50; €42.00. ISBN 978-962-996-399-6.)Google Scholar
Tilt, Bryan, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xvi + 216 pp. $29.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15001-9.)Google Scholar
Tong, James W., Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999–2005. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 282 pp. £32.50, ISBN 978-0-19-537728-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tow, William T., Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional–Global Nexus. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 370 pp. $32.99. ISBN 978-0-521-75882-6.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Tsai, Weipin, Reading Shenbao: Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China, 1919–37. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xxi + 249 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-01982-9.)Google Scholar
Walder, Andrew G., The Beijing Red Guard Movement: Fractured Rebellion. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii + 400 pp. $39.95; £29.95; €36.00. ISBN 978-0-674-03503-4.)Google Scholar
Wu, Fei, Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xv + 216 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55171-7.)Google Scholar
Wu, Shicun and Zou, Keyuan, Maritime Security in the South China Sea: Regional Implications and International Cooperation. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. xi + 272 pp. $99.95. ISBN 978-0-7546-7727-7.)Google Scholar
Wyatt, Don J., The Blacks of Pre-Modern China. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 198 pp. $42.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8.)Google Scholar
Yan, Yunxiang, The Individualization of Chinese Society. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2009. xl + 304 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-84788-378-0.)Google Scholar
Zhang, Yingjin, Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʽi, 2010. xii + 257 pp. $49.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3337-4.)Google Scholar
Zhao, Litao and Lin, Tin Seng (eds.), China's New Social Policy. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xvi + 228 pp. £66.00. ISBN 978-981-4277-73-0.)Google Scholar