January–March 2023

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 may include notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

• Alden, Chris, and Méndez, Álvaro. China and Latin America: Development, Agency and Geopolitics. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 296 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9781786992529.)

• Amar, Paul, Rofel, Lisa, Viteri, Maria Amelia, Fernandez-Salvador, Vonsulelo and Brancoli, Fernando (eds.). The Tropical Silk Road: The Future of China in South America. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 472 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781503633803.)

• Babbage, Ross. The Next Major War: Can the US and Its Allies Win Against China? Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2023. 300 pp. $44.99. ISBN 9781621966708.)

• Bakken, Børge. Crime and Control in China: The Myth of Harmony. (Cambridge: Polity, 2022. 256 pp. £26.95; €21.90. ISBN 9780745663180.)

• Bartsch, Shadi. Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 304 pp. $33.00; 28.00. ISBN 9780691229591.)

• Bell, Daniel A. The Dean of Shandong: Confessions of a Minor Bureaucrat at a Chinese University. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023. 208 pp. $27.95; £22.00. ISBN 9780691247120.)

• Bush, Richard, Glaser, Bonnie and Hass, Ryan. US–Taiwan Relations: Will China's Challenge Lead to a Crisis? (Washington, DC: Brookings, 2023. 184 pp. $27.40. ISBN 9780815739999.)

• Cheung, Sidney C. H. Hong Kong Foodways. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2022. 116 pp. HK$120.00. ISBN 9789888754359.)

• Chinoy, Mike. Assignment China: An Oral History of American Journalists in the People's Republic. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 520 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231207997.)

• Chua, Emily H. C. The Currency of Truth: Newsmaking and the Late-Socialist Imaginaries of China's Digital Era. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 186 pp. $24.94. ISBN 9780472055951.)

• Coble, Parks M. The Collapse of Nationalist China: How Chiang Kai-shek Lost China's Civil War. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 270 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9781009297615.)

• Cosentino, Gabriele. The Infodemic: Disinformation, Geopolitics and the Covid-19 Pandemic. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 224 pp. £21.99. ISBN 9780755640737.)

• de Kloet, Jeroen, Chow, Yiu Fai and Chong, Gladys Pak Lei (eds). Trans-Asia as Method: Theory and Practices. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. xvi + 228 pp. £28.00. ISBN 9781538148105.)

• Dimitrov, Martin. Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 496 pp. $34.95. ISBN 9780197672938.)

• Doyon, Jérôme. Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China. (Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2023. 206 pp. $80.00. ISBN 9780472075577.)

• Gohli, Hannes. Steering Political Currents: Policy Design and Implementation in China's Smart Grid Industry. (Baden Baden: Nomos, 2023. 510 pp. Open Access. ISBN 9783756005239.)

• Gurtov, Mel. Engaging China: Rebuilding Sino-American Relations. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2023. ix + 200 pp. $85.00; £65.00. ISBN 9781538172186.)

• Haddad, John R. Cultures Colliding: American Missionaries, Chinese Resistance, and the Rise of Modern Institutions in China. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2023. 350 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9781439911617.)

• Hass, Ryan. Stronger: Adapting America's China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 240 pp. $22.00. ISBN 9780300271096.)

• Huang, Yasheng. The Rise and Fall of the East: How Exams, Autocracy, Stability and Technology Brought China Success and Why They Might Lead to Its Decline. (Yale University Press, 2023. 440 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780300266368.)

• Ke-Schutte, Jay. Angloscene: Compromised Personhood in Afro-Chinese Translations. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2023. 210 pp. $34.95; $30.00. ISBN 9780520389816.)

• Kim, Sung Chull. China and Its Small Neighbors: The Political Economy of Asymmetry, Vulnerability, and Hedging. (New York: SUNY Press, 2023. 306 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781438492353.)

• Lewis, Joanna I. Cooperating for the Climate: Learning from International Partnerships in China's Clean Energy Sector. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2023. 270 pp. $45.00. ISBN 9780262544825.)

• Li, Huaiyin. The Master in Bondage: Factory Workers in China, 1949–2019. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 330 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781503635289.)

• Li, Linda Chelan, and Mo, Phyllis Lai Lan (eds.). Hong Kong Professional Services and the Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges for Co-evolving Sustainability. (London and New York: Routledge, 2023. £96.00. 266 pp. ISBN 9780367747367.)

• Li, Zehou (edited and translated by Carleo, Robert A. III). The Humanist Ethics of Li Zehou. (New York: SUNY Press, 2023. 270 pp. $95.00. ISBN 9781438491431.)

• Mellors Rodriguez, Sarah. Reproductive Realities in Modern China: Birth Control and Abortion, 1911–2021. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 248 pp. $110.00. ISBN 9781316515310.)

• Millwood, Pete. Improbable Diplomats: How Ping-Pong Players, Musicians, and Scientists Remade US–China Relations. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 336 pp. £47.99. ISBN 9781108837439.)

• Qian, Jiwei. The Political Economy of Making and Implementing Social Policy in China. (Cham: Springer, 2021. 205 pp. £54.99. ISBN 9789811650246.)

• Riemenschnitter, Andrea, Imbach, Jessica, and Jaguscik, Justyna. Sinophone Utopias: Exploring Futures Beyond the China Dream. (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2023. 484 pp. £129.99. ISBN 9781621966463.)

• Shinn, David H., and Eisenman, Joshua. China's Relations with Africa: A New Era of Strategic Engagement. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023. 456 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9780231210010.)

• Snow, Philip. China and Russia: Four Centuries of Conflict and Concord. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023. 603 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978030016651.)

• Söderman, Sten. The Footballization of China: Strategies for World Cup Glory. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2023. 180 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781803928258.)

• Su, Yang. Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression, and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. $29.99. ISBN 9781009114202.)

• Sun, Taiyi. Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism. (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2023. 300 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780472055630.)

• Sun, Wanning. Love Troubles: Inequality in China and its Intimate Consequences. (London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 216 pp. £76.50. ISBN 9781350329621.)

• van der Kamp, Denise Sienli. Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. £85.00. ISBN 9781009152648.)

• Walder, Andrew. Civil War in Guangxi: The Cultural Revolution on China's Southern Periphery. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 296 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781503635227.)

• Witteborn, Saskia. Unruly Speech: Displacement and the Politics of Transgression. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 250 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781503634305.)

• Wu, Jieh-min. Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the China Development Model. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 532 pp. $70.00; £60.95; €63.95. ISBN 9780674278226.)

• Wuthnow, Joel, Grossman, Derek, Saunders, Phillip C., Scobell, Andrew and Yang, Andrew N.D. (eds.). Crossing the Strait: China's Military Prepares for War with Taiwan. (Washington, DC: National Defense University, 2022. 368 pp. Open Access. ISBN 9780996824989.)

• Xiong, Yuezhi (Translated by Harris, Lane J. and Chun, Mei). Shanghai Urban Life and Its Heterogeneous Cultural Entanglements. (Leiden: Brill, 2022. €175.00; $210.00. ISBN 9789004511101.)

• Yeh, Michelle, Li, Zhangbin, and Stewart, Frank (eds.). A Century of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2023. 394 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295751160.)

• Zhao, Suisheng. The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy. (Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2022. 358 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9781503634145.)