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.

• Ahlers, Anna L., Rural Policy Implementation in Contemporary China: New Socialist Countryside. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xiii + 268 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-71846-2.)

• Andrews, Bridie, The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850–1960. Vancouver and Toronto: UBCPress, 2014. xvi + 294 pp. CAD$32.95; US$35.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-2433-0.)

• Bensacq-Tixier, Nicole, La France en Chine de Sun Yat-sen à Mao Zedong, 1918–1953. (Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2014. 751 pp. €28.00. ISBN 978-2-7535-2925-0.)

• Berra, John, and Ju, Wei (eds.), World Film Locations: Shanghai. (Bristol: Intellect Books, 2014. 128 pp. ISBN 978-1-78320-199-0.)

• Brown, Kerry, The New Emperors: Power and Princelings in China. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2014. ix + 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-78076-910-3.)

• Brun, Diego Abente, and Diamond, Larry (eds.), Clientelism, Social Policy and the Quality of Democracy. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. xiv + 267 pp. £22.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-1229-0.)

• Chau, Donovan C., Exploiting Africa: The Influence of Maoist China in Algeria, Ghana, and Tanzania. (Annopolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2014. x + 212 pp. ISBN 978-1-61251-250-1.)

• Chen, Xiaomei (ed.), The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama (abridged edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. x + 641 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-16503-7.)

• Cheung, Fanny M., Woo, Jean and Law, Chi-kin (eds.), Health Systems: Challenges, Visions, and Reforms from a Comparative Global Perspective. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, CUHK, 2013. xv + 414 pp. $12.00. ISBN 978-962-441-752-4.)

• Cheung, Fanny M., Siu-lun, Wong, Po-san, Wan and Zheng, Victor Wan-tai (eds.), Goujian Aomen weilai (Constructing the Future of Macao). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014. xi + 400 pp. $12.00. ISBN 978-962-441-597-1.)

• Cheung, Tai Ming (ed.), Forging China's Military Might: A New Framework for Assessing Innovation. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. vi + 295 pp. £16.00. ISBN 978-1-4214-1158-3.)

• Chio, Jenny, A Landscape of Travel: The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014. xxxi + 294 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99366-9.)

• Chiu, Kuei-fen, Fell, Dafydd and Ping, Lin (eds.), Migration to and from Taiwan. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. xvi + 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-65755-6.)

• Davin, Delia, and Harriss-White, Barbara (eds.), China–India: Pathways of Economic and Social Development. (Oxford: Oxford University Press (for the British Academy), 2014. xvii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-726567-3.)

• Davis, Deborah S., and Friedman, Sara L. (eds.). Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. xii + 326 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9184-7.)

• Doleželová-Velingerová, Milena, and Wagner, Rudolf G., Chinese Encyclopaedias of New Global Knowledge (1870–1930): Changing Ways of Thought. (New York, Dordrecht, Heidelberg and London: Springer, 2014. x + 472 pp. ISBN 978-3-642-35915-6.)

• Dong, Hongyuan. A History of the Chinese Language. (London and New York: Routledge, 2014. x + 203 pp. £28.99. ISBN 978-0-415-66040-2.)

• Dryburgh, Marjorie, and Dauncey, Sarah (eds.), Writing Lives in China, 1600-2010: Histories of the Elusive Self. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xii + 265 pp. ISBN 978-0-137-36856-0.)

• Evans, Paul, Engaging China: Myth, Aspiration, and Strategy in Canadian Policy from Trudeau to Harper. (Toronto, Buffalo and London: University of Toronto Press, 2013. xix + 122 pp. ISBN 978-1-4426-1448-2.)

• Fincher, Leta Hong, Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2014. 214 pp. £14.99; $24.95. ISBN 978-1-78032-921-5.)

• Foster, Kate, Chinese Literature and the Child: Children and Childhood in Late Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. viii + 251 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-1-137-31097-2.)

• Fraser, Benjamin (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2014. xxvii + 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9157-6.)

• Friedman, Eli, Insurgency Trap: Labor Politics in Postsocialist China. (Ithaca and London: ILR Press [Cornell University Press], 2014. xiii + 214 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-7931-1.)

• Gallagher, Kelly Sims, The Globalization of Clean Energy Technology. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2014. xi + 261 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-0-262-02698-7.)

• Gao, Yunxiang, Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China's National Crisis, 1931–45. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBCPress, 2013. xiv + 328 pp. CAD$32.95; US$35.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-2482-8.)

• Gimpel, Denise, Nielsen, Bent and Bailey, Paul (eds.), Creative Spaces: Seeking the Dynamics of Change in China. (Copenhagen: NIAS Press, 2012. xii + 242 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-87-7694-098-0.)

• Gormley, Dennis. M, Erickson, Andrew S. and Yuan, Jingdong, A Low-Visibility Force Multiplier: Assessing China's Cruise Missile Ambitions. (Washington, DC: National Defense University Press, 2014. xx + 165 pp.)

• Greene, Naomi, From Fu Manchu to Kung Fu Panda: Images of China in American Film. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xii + 264 pp. £20.50. ISBN 978-0-8248-3836-2.)

• Gu, Ming Dong, Sinologism: An Alternative to Orientalism and Postcolonialism. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xxii + 269 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-415-62654-5.)

• Guo, Qingwang, and Junxue, Jia, Structural reform in China's Regional Governments. Volume 1. (Honolulu, Hong Kong, Beijing and Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2015. ix + 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-62320-001-5.)

• Harris, Stuart, China's Foreign Policy. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2014. xvii + 236 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6247-3.)

• Hayes, Jack Patrick, A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands: Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2014. xlvi + 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-7380-0.)

• Heilmann, Sebastian, and Schmidt, Dirk H., China's Foreign Political and Economic Relations: An Unconventional Global Power. (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. xvii + 245 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-1302-9.)

• Hillman, Ben, Patronage and Power: Local State Network and Party-State Resilience in Rural China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. viii + 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8936-3.)

• Ho, Ming-sho, Working Class Formation in Taiwan: Fractured Solidarity in State-Owned Enterprises, 1945–2012. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xxi + 247 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-137-40476-3.)

• Horesh, Niv, Shanghai Past and Present: A Concise Socio-Economic History, 1842–2012. (Brighton, Chicago and Toronto: Sussex Academic Press, 2014. viii + 128 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-1-84519-631-8.)

• Huang, C.-T. James, Li, Y.-H. Audrey and Simpson, Andrew (eds.), The Handbook of Chinese Linguistics. (Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2014. xv + 661 pp. ISBN 978-0-470-65534-4.)

• Huang, Jie, Interregional Recognition and Enforcement of Civil and Commercial Judgments: Lessons for China from US and EU Law. (Oxford and Portland: Hart Publishing, 2014. xviii + 333 pp. ISBN 978-1-84946-434-5.)

• Idema, Wilt L. (eds.), Chinese Studies in the Netherlands: Past, Present and Future. (Leiden: Brill, 2014. xi + 314 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-22591-6.)

• Inwood, Heather, Verse going Viral: China's New Media Scenes. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014. viii + 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99370-6.)

• Jansen, Thomas, Klein, Thoralf and Meyer, Christian, Globalization and the Making of Religious Modernity in China: Transnational Religions, Local Agents, and the Study of Religion, 1800–Present. (Leiden: Brill, 2014. xi + 424 pp. €150.00; $194.00. ISBN 978-90-04-27150-0.)

• Joshi, Khyati Y., and Desai, Jigna (eds.). Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South. (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2013. x + 299 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-252-07938-2.)

• Jullien, François, On the Universal, the Uniform, the Common and Dialogue between Cultures. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2014. xiii + 189 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-4623-7.)

• Kiely, Jan, The Compelling Ideal: Thought Reform and the Prison in China, 1904–1956. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014. xii + 403 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-0-300-18594-2.)

• Koesel, Karrie J., Religion and Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict, and the Consequences. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. xiv + 226 pp. £5.00; $80.00. ISBN 978-1-107-68407-2.)

• Kowner, Rotem, and Demel, Walter (eds.), Race and Racism in Modern East Asia: Western and Eastern Constructions. (Leiden: Brill, 2013. xxiii + 593 pp. €188.00; $261.00. ISBN 978-90-04-23729-2.)

• Lampton, David M., Following the Leader: Ruling China, from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2014. xiii + 293 pp. £21.95. ISBN 978-0-520-28121-9.)

• Lee, Lily Xiao Hong, and Wiles, Sue (eds.), Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Tang Through Ming, 618–1644. Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 2014. xliii + 669 pp. ISBN 978-0-7656-4314-8.

• Li, Xiaobing, China's Battle for Korea: The 1951 Spring Offensive. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. xxxviii + 385 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-0-253-01157-2.)

• Lieberthal, Kenneth, Li, Cheng and Keping, Yu (eds.), China's Political development: Chinese and American Perspectives. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2014. xiii + 417 pp. ISBN 978-0-8157-2535-0.)

• Lim, Song Hwee, Tsai Ming-Liang and a Cinema of Slowness. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. xiii + 217 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3684-9.)

• Lin, Xiaodong, Gender, Modernity and Male Migrant Workers in China: Becoming a Modern Man. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xviii+ 145 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-62657-6.)

• Liu, Jianqiang (ed.), Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment. Volume 3: Public Action and Government Accountability. (Leiden: Brill, 2014. xix + 353 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-26879-1.)

• Lu, Hsiu-Lien and Esarey, Ashley, My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2014. xiii + 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99364-5.)

• Makeham, John (ed.), Transforming Consciousness: Yogacara Thought in Modern China. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. xiii + 436 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-935813-7.)

• Mertha, Andrew, Brothers in Arms: Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. xiii + 175 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-5265-9.)

• Minoru, Kitamura, and Siyun, Lin (trans. Prener, Connie), The Reluctant Combatant: Japan and the Second Sino-Japanese War. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: United Press of America, 2014. xxi + 118 pp. ISBN 978-0-7618-6324-3.)

• Morris, Paul, Shimazu, Naoko and Vickers, Edward (eds.), Imagining Japan in Post-War East Asia: Identity Politics, Schooling and Popular Culture. (London and New York: Routledge, 2013. xv + 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-71399-3.)

• Munsterhjelm, Mark, Living Dead in the Pacific: Contested Sovereignty and Racism in Genetic Research on Taiwan Aborigines. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBCPress, 2014. x + 277 pp. CAD$34.95; US$37.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-2660-0.)

• Park, Albert, and Yoo, David K. (eds.), Encountering Modernity: Christianity in East Asia and Asian America. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2014. viii + 242 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3947-5.)

• Perkins, Franklin, Heaven and Earth are not Humane: The Problem of Evil in Classical Chinese Philosophy. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. xiii + 295 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-253-01172-5.)

• Popov, Vladimir, Mixed Fortunes: An Economic History of China, Russia, and the West. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. ix + 192 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-870363-1.)

• Qiu, Peipei, with Zhiliang, Su and Lifei, Chen, Chinese Comfort Women: Testimonies from Imperial Japan's Sex Slaves. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBCPress, 2013. xx + 254 pp. CAD$32.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-2545-0.)

• Rozman, Gilbert, The Sino-Russian Challenge to the World Order: National Identities, Bilateral Relations, and East versus West in the 2010s. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2014. x + 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9101-4.)

• Rujivacharakul, Vilamin, Hahn, H. Jazel, Oshima, Ken Tadashi and Christensen, Peter (eds.), Architecturalized Asia: Mapping a Continent through History. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xv + 301 pp. £44.95. ISBN 978-0-8248-3952-9.)

• Shan, Fuliang Patrick, Taming China's Wilderness: Immigration, Settlement and the Shaping of the Heilongjiang Frontier, 1900–1931. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2014. xii + 227 pp. ISBN 978-1-4094-6389-4.)

• Silk, Jonathan A., Buddhism in China: Collected Papers of Erik Zürcher. (Leiden: Brill, 2013. xii + 672 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-25093-2.)

• Turner, Jennifer (ed.), China Environment Series (No. 12). Special Water and Energy Issue. (Washington, DC: Wilson Center. 2012/13. iv + 169 pp. ISBN 978-1-938027-30-7.)

• Turner, Sarah (ed.), Red Stamps and Gold Stars: Fieldwork Dilemmas in Upland Socialist Asia. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBCPress, 2013. x + 295 pp. CAD$34.95; US$37.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-2494-1.)

• Weatherley, Robert, Making China Strong: The Role of Nationalism in Chinese Thinking on Democracy and Human Rights. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. ix + 216 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-28461-6.)

• Woeser, Tsering, and Lixiong, Wang (edited and translated by Law, Violet S.), Voices from Tibet: Selected Essays and Reportage. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2014. xxxviii + 81 pp. £16.50. ISBN 978-0-8248-3951-2.)

• Wong, Winnie Won Yin, Van Gogh on Demand: China and the Ready Made. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2013. xiii + 302 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-02489-9.)

• Yang, Huilin, China, Christianity, and the Question of Culture. (Waco, TX: Baylor University Press, 2014. x + 264 pp. ISBN 978-1-4813-0017-9.)

• Yu, Lianne, Consumption in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2014. xi + 207 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6971-7.)

• Zhao, Linda Shuo, Financing Illegal Migration: Chinese Underground Banks and Human Smuggling in New York City. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xi + 160 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-29089-2.)

• Zheng, Victor Wan-tai, Po-san, Wan and Cheung, Fanny M., Wending te shou: minyi diaocha yu fenxi (Chief Executive Election: Opinion Polls and Analysis). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. xii + 303 pp. $10.50. ISBN 978-962-441-596-4.)

• Zhong, Lihe, From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan. New York: Columbia University Press, 2014. xxxviii + 293 pp. $35.00; £24.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16630-0.)

• Zhou, Zhenhua, A Study of Globalizing Cities: Theoretical Frameworks and China's Modes. (Hackensack, NJ: Word Century, 2013. xiv + 480 pp. $134.00; £88.00. ISBN 978-1-938134-35-7.)