January–March 2026

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 late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below includes notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

Brazinsky, Gregg A. Cold War Comrades: An Emotional History of the Sino-North Korean Alliance. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 274 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9781009633314.)

Casas, Roger. Worldly Engagements: Buddhist Monasticism and Masculinity among the Tai Lue of Southwest China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2025. 252 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9798880700875.)

Cheng, Vincent Shing. Wasted Lives: The Social Exclusion of Older Triads Who Use Drugs in the Hong Kong Illegal Employment Market. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 168 pp. £155.00. ISBN 9781032365718.)

Chu, Shiuon. Reinventing Examination and the State in Twentieth-Century China and Taiwan. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2025. 300 pp. £41.95. ISBN 9780674302570.)

Dikötter, Frank. Red Dawn over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity. London: Bloomsbury, 2026. 384 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781526670700.)

Dillon, Michael. Shanghai: The Story of China’s Most Dynamic City. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2026. 336 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780300270631.)

Driessen, Miriam. Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. 218 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780520421295.)

Feng, Xiaojun. The Making of Labour Precarity in China since 1949. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 290 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781009640534.)

Guiheux, Gilles, and Bernard Thomann (eds.). Precariousness in High-Growth Economies: Comparing Labor in Contemporary China and in Postwar Japan and France. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 242 pp. £155.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781003701965.)

Hsing, You-Tien. Conserving China’s Northwest Frontier: Nature, Culture, and Future. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 608 pp. £115.12. 2025. ISBN 9780198867173.)

Judge, Joan. The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894–1954. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2025. 408 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9780226842813.)

Kaiser, Alexandra. Presumption of Innocence under China’s ‘National Conditions’. (Oxford: Hart Publishing, 2025. 296 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781509973101.)

Kwan, Diana S., and Fu-Lai Tony Yu. Cultural Differences between the West and East Asia and their Impacts on Global Economy. (London: Anthem Press, 2026. 200 pp. £80.00; $110.00. ISBN 9781839995460.)

Lekner, Dayton. A Hundred Flowers: How Literature Shaped Maoism. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 82 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781009600538.)

Li, Xiaobing. China’s Mahan: Admiral Liu Huaqing and the Rise of the Modern Chinese Navy. (Washington, DC: Naval Institute Press, 2026. 312 pp. $44.95. ISBN 9781682479605.)

Lin, Dalton. Geopolitics and China’s Patronage Strategy: The Wary Patron, the Autonomous Client, and the Vietnam War. (London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 292 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781032731599.)

Liu, Zheng. Cultural Mavericks: The Business and Politics of Independent Bookselling in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2026. 264 pp. $30.00; £25.00. ISBN 9780231200134.)

Miller, Daniel, and Xinyuan Wang (eds.). Understanding China Through Digital Anthropology. (London: UCL Press, 2026. 324 pp. £35.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781800089907.)

Ng, How Wee. The Chinese Censorship Discourse on Television Dramas: Worrying about the Audience in Postsocialist China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 280 pp. £155.00. ISBN 9781032749549.)

Otis, Eileen M. Walmart: Made in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2026. 220 pp. $26.00. ISBN 9781503646414.)

Ping, Lei. Shanghai Mundane: Survival and Revival of Bourgeois Sentiments under Chinese Socialism. (London: Bloomsbury, 2025. 336 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781666951387.)

Schoenhals, Michael. Eyes and Ears: Secret Agent Work in Cold War China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 268 pp. £28.00. ISBN 9781009604383.)

Singaravélou, Pierre (trans. Stephen W. Sawyer). Tianjin Cosmopolis: An Alternative History of Globalization. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 384 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231192019.)

Stockmann, Daniela, and Ting Luo. Governing Digital China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 294 pp. £28.00. ISBN 9781009360661.)

Sun, Yanfei. Religious Change in Post-Mao China: Toward a New Sociology of Religion. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2026. 320 pp. $32.50. ISBN 9780226845876.)

Tjønneland, Elling (ed.). Chinese Development Aid and Africa: What, How, and Why. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 220 pp. £155.00. ISBN 9781032778365.)

Wang, Chenyi. Mao’s Final Legacies and the Sino-Vietnamese War, 1971–79. (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2026. 286 pp. £63.00. ISBN 9780774872546.)

Xu, Guoqi. The Idea of China: A Contested History. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2026. 320 pp. £29.95. ISBN 9780674976795.)

Xue, Charlie Qiuli, and Arwen Yingting Chen. American-Designed Shopping Malls in China (美式商場在中國). Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2026. HK$480.00. ISBN 9789888946754.)

Zeng, James. A Legal Theory of State-Owned Enterprises: The China Experience. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 278 pp. £105.00. ISBN 9781009457682.)

Zhai, Yida. The Political Psychology of Citizens in Rising China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. 416 pp. £115.00. ISBN 9781009489713.)

Zhang, Hui. The Untold Story of China’s Nuclear Weapon Development and Testing: A Technical History. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2025. 352 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9780262051828.)

Zhang, Yanshuo. Creative Belonging: The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. $39.95. ISBN 9780472057771.)

Zhou, Mujun. The Death and Life of Chinese Civil Society. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2026. 286 pp. $34.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472057856.)

Zhu, Jiangnan. Bribery as a Third Path to Power in China? Political Selection in China Beyond Performance and Patronage. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026. £18.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781009471954.)