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.

• Ames, Roger T., and Nakajima, Takahiro (eds.). Zhuangzi and the Happy Fish. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2015. viii + 298 pp. £29.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4684-8.)

• Bao, Weihong. Fiery Cinema: The Emergence of an Affective Medium in China, 1915–1945. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2015. 479 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-8134-1.)

• Bell, Daniel A.The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015. xii + 318 pp. £19. 95. ISBN 978-0-691-16645-2.)

• Benn, James A.Tea in China: A Religious and Cultural History. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2015. xiii + 288 pp. $24.99. ISBN 978-0-8248-3964-2.)

• Benton, Gregor (ed.). Prophets Unarmed: Chinese Trotskyists in Revolution, War, Jail, and the Return from Limbo. (Leiden: Brill, 2015. xv + 1269 pp. €199.00; $258.00. ISBN 978-90-04-26976-7.)

• Bianco, Lucien. La Récidive: révolution russe, révolution chinoise. (Paris: Gallimard, 2014. 517 pp. €29.00. ISBN 978-2-07-014698-7.)

• Billé, Franck. Sinophobia: Anxiety, Violence, and the Making of Mongolian Identity. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2015. x + 255 pp. £57.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3982-6.)

• Bossler, Beverly (ed.). Gender and Chinese History: Transformative Encounters. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii + 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99470-3.)

• Chan, Anita (ed.). Chinese Workers in Comparative Perspective. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. x + 280 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7993-9.)

• Chang, Eileen (Introduction by Link, Perry). Naked Earth. (New York: New York Review Books, 2015 [1956]. xiii + 312 pp. $16. 95. ISBN 978-1-59017-834-8.)

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

• Chen, Huiqin, with Chen, Shehong (introduction by Davin, Delia). Daughter of Good Fortune: A Twentieth-Century Chinese Peasant Memoir. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii + 348 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99492-5.)

• Chen, Zongshi. The Revival, Legitimization, and Development of Private Enterprise in China: Empowering State Capitalism. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiv + 191 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-137-51639-8.)

• Chiu, Stephen Wing-kai, and Cheung, Fanny M. (eds.). Tulu zhengming: erlingyi si shishi lun cong (Tolo Dialogues: Compendium of Current Commentaries). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2015. v + 214 pp. $9.00. ISBN 978-962-441-599-5.)

• Chiu, Stephen Wing-kai, Hsiao, Michael Hsin-huang and Po-san, Wan (eds.). Yiyidaishui: Tai Gang shehui yiti zongheng (Near Neighbours: Issues in Taiwan and Hong Kong Societies). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2014. xii + 330 pp. $10.50. ISBN 978-962-441-598-8.)

• Christensen, Thomas J.The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power. (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 2015. xxii + 371 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-393-08113-8.)

• Dong, Lisheng, Kriesi, Hanspeter and Kübler, Daniel. Urban Mobilizations and New Media in Contemporary China. (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015. xvii + 193 pp. ISBN 978-1-4724-3097-7.)

• Edwards, Dan. Independent Chinese Documentary: Alternative Views, Alternative Publics. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015. xii + 204 pp. ISBN 978-0-7486-9562-1.)

• Engebretsen, Elisabeth L.Queer Women in Urban China: An Ethnography. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xix + 194 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-63620-9.)

• Erixon, Fredrik, and Srinivasan, Krishnan (eds.). Europe in Emerging Asia. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xiv + 289 pp. ISBN 978-1-78348-227-6.)

• Fan, Victor. Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory. (University of Minnesota Press, 2015. xii + 277 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-9357-3.)

• Fu, Xiaolan. China's Path to Innovation. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 434 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978-1-107-04699-3.)

• Gaetano, Arianne M.Out to Work: Migration, Gender, and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2015. ix + 170 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4098-3.)

• Goldstein, Melvyn C.A History of Modern Tibet. Volume 3: The Storm Clouds Descend, 1955–1957. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2014. xxv + 547 pp. ISBN 978-0-520-27651-2.)

• Greenspan, Anna. Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade. (London: Hurst & Company, 2014. xxvii + 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-84904-360-1.)

• Hawes, Colin S. C.The Chinese Transformation of Corporate Culture. (London and New York: Routledge. 2012. xi + 170 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-85744-5.)

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

• Jabb, Lama. Oral and Literary Continuities in Modern Tibetan Literature: The Inescapable Nation. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2015. x + 277 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-0333-4.)

• Jiang, Shao. Citizen Publications in China before the Internet. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiii + 268 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-49207-4.)

• Jones, Carol A. G.Lost in China: Law, Culture, Identity in Post-1997 Hong Kong. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. ix + 268 pp. £69.99; $110.00. ISBN 978-1-107-09337-9.)

• Khan, Sulmaan Wasif. Muslim, Trader, Nomad, Spy: China's Cold War and the People of the Tibetan Borderlands. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xxiv + 189 pp. $34. 95. ISBN 978-1-4696-2110-4.)

• Kirsch, Griseldis. Contemporary Sino-Japanese Relations on Screen: A History, 1989–2005. (London: Bloomsbury, 2015. xix + 224 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-4725-7238-7.)

• Klimeš, Ondřej. Struggle by the Pen: The Uyghur Discourse of Nation and National Interest, c. 1900–1949. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. xiv + 280 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-28808-9.)

• Lai, Guolong. Excavating the Afterlife: The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xi + 297 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99449-9.)

• Lai-Henderson, Selina. Mark Twain in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. 156 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-8964-6.)

• Lam, Lai Sing. Conservatism and the Kissinger–Mao Axis: Development of the Twin Global Orders. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2015. xxxi + 201 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-1139-1.)

• Lam, Willy Wo-Lap. Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping: Renaissance, Reform, or Regression. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xxiii + 323 pp. £27.99. ISBN 978-0-7656-4209-7.)

• Lee, Tong King. Experimental Chinese Literature: Translation, Technology, Poetics. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. viii + 181 pp. €99.00; $128.00. ISBN 978-90-04-29337-3.)

• Lei, Sean Hsiang-Lin. Neither Donkey nor Horse: Medicine in the Struggle over China's Modernity. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 376 pp. $35.00. ISBN 978-0-226-16988-0.)

• Leung, Parry P.Labor Activists and the New Working Class in China: Strike Leaders’ Struggles. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. x + 199 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-48349-2.)

• Li, Shi, Sato, Hiroshi and Sicular, Terry (eds.). Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxix + 499 pp. £27.99; $41.99. ISBN 978-1-107-52926-7.)

• Lindsay, Jon R., Cheung, Tai Ming and Reveron, Derek S. (eds.). China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. xvii + 375 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-020127-2.)

• Lynch, Daniel C.China's Futures: PRC Elite Debate Economics, Politics, and Foreign Policy. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xx + 328 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9419-0.)

• Ma, Jean. Sounding the Modern Woman: The Songstress in Chinese Cinema. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2015. ix + 282 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-5876-3.)

• Mackerras, Colin. Western Perspectives on the People's Republic of China: Politics, Economy and Society. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2015. x + 261 pp. £58.00; $88.00. ISBN 978-981-4566-54-4.)

• Miao, Bo. Emissions, Pollutants and Environmental Policy in China: Designing a National Emissions Trading System. (London and New York: Routledge. 2013. xv + 201 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-65957-4.)

• Milburn, Olivia. Urbanization in Early and Medieval China: Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xx + 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99460-4.)

• Nonini, Donald M.“Getting By”: Class and State Formation among Chinese in Malaysia. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. x + 348 pp. $27. 95. ISBN 978-0-8014-7908-3.)

• Nylan, Michael, and Vankeerberghen, Griet. Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiv + 642 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99405-5.)

• Oertel, Janka. China and the United Nations: Chinese UN Policy in the Areas of Peace and Development in the Era of Hu Jintao. (London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 287 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-4742-2826-8.)

• Pils, Eva. China's Human Rights Lawyers: Advocacy and Resistance. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xiv + 298 pp. $155.00. ISBN 978-0-415-87084-9.)

• Qian, Nanxiu. Politics, Poetics, and Gender in Late Qing China: Xue Shaohui and the Era of Reform. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xiii + 376 pp. £47.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9240-0.)

• Qian, Suoqiao (ed.). Cross-Cultural Studies: China and the World: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Longxi. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. xvi + 359 pp. €135.00; $175.00. ISBN 978-90-04-28494-4.)

• Shelach-Lavi, Gideon. The Archaeology of Early China: From Prehistory to the Han Dynasty. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xviii + 373 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-14525-1.)

• Shi, Tianjian. The Cultural Logic of Politics in Mainland China and Taiwan. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 299 pp. £60.00; $95.00. ISBN 978-1-107-01176-2.)

• Sullivan, Lawrence R., and Liu, Nancy Y.. Historical Dictionary of Science and Technology in Modern China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. lxxvii + 545 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-8108-7854-9.)

• Toohey, Lisa, Picker, Colin B. and Greenacre, Jonathan (eds.). China and the International Economic Order: New Directions and Changing Paradigms. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xix + 323 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978-1-107-06201-6.)

• Turner, Sarah, Bonnin, Christine and Michaud, Jean. Frontier Livelihoods: Hmong in the Sino-Vietnamese Borderlands. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xii + 223 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-295-99466-6.)

• Qilong, Wang and Xiaoyong, Deng. The Academic Knight between East and West: A Biography of Alexander von Staëholstein. (Singapore: Gale Asia, 2014. vi + 277 pp. $120.00. ISBN 978-981-0451007-3.)

• Wang, David Der-wei. The Lyrical in Epic Time: Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists through the 1949 Crisis. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. xviii + 508 pp. $60.00; £41.50. ISBN 978-0-231-17046-8.)

• Wilson, Scott. Tigers without Teeth: The Pursuit of Justice in Contemporary China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2015. xiii + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-3616-5

• Wooldridge, Chuck. City of Virtues: Nanjing in an Age of Utopian Visions. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2015. xiv + 242 pp. ISBN 978-0295-99469-7.)

• Wu, Shellen Xiao. Empires of Coal: Fueling China's Entry into the Modern World Order, 1860–1920. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. xii + 266 pp. £32.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9284-4.)

• Wu, Yiching. The Cultural Revolution at the Margins: Chinese Socialism in Crisis. (Cambridge, MA, and London, UK: Harvard University Press, 2014. xxii + 335 pp. £36.95. ISBN 978-0-674-72879-0.)

• Yip, Tin-sang (ed.). Xianggang xuanju ziliao huibian 2005–2012 nian (Electoral Facts in Hong Kong: 2005–2012). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, 2015. xii + 476 pp. $12.00. ISBN 978-962-441-600-8.)

• Young, Stuart H.Conceiving the Indian Buddhist Patriarchs in China. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2015. ix + 338 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-4120-1.)

• Zhang, Everett Yuezhong. The Impotence Epidemic: Men's Medicine and Sexual Desire in Contemporary China. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2015. xii + 288 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-5856-5.)

• Zhang, Xingxing. Selected Essays on the History of Contemporary China. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. x + 287 pp. €115.00; $149.00. ISBN 978-90-04-29275-8.)

• Zhu, Weizheng (trans. Dillon, Michael). Rereading Modern Chinese History. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015. x + 370 pp. €135.00; $175.00. ISBN 978-90-04-29330-4.)

• Zhuang, Juhong, Vanderberg, Paul and Huang, Yiping. Managing the Middle-Income Transition: Challenges Facing the People's Republic of China. (Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2015. xiv + 580 pp. ISBN 978-1-78347-769-2.)