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Books received

(January–March 2019)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2019

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The China Quarterly , Volume 238 , June 2019 , pp. 568 - 570
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2019 

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.

  • Alexander, Jeffrey C., Palmer, David A., Park, Sunwoong and Ku, Agnes Shuk-mei. The Civil Sphere in East Asia. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xvii + 304 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42783-8.)

  • Anderson, Kay, Ang, Ien, del Bono, Andrea, McNeill, Donald and Wong, Alexandra. Chinatown Unbound: Trans-Asian Urbanism in the Age of China. (London and New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. xii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-78660-898-7.)

  • Barnes, Nicole Elizabeth. Intimate Communities: Wartime Healthcare and the Birth of Modern China: 1937–1945. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2018. xvii + 304 pp. £27.00. ISBN 978-0-520-30046-0.)

  • Bergère, Marie-Claire. La Chine du coin de l'œil: Les amusements sérieux et comiques d'une sinologue. (Paris: Les Indes savantes, 2018. 118 pp. €15.00. ISBN 978-2-84654-494-8.)

  • Bian, Yanjie. Guanxi: How China Works. (Cambridge, UK, and Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. xviii + 258 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-0039-0.)

  • Byrnes, Corey. Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xv + 322 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18806-7.)

  • Caple, Jane E. Morality and Monastic Revival in Post-Mao Tibet. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. xi + 218 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-6984-7.)

  • Chang, Jing Jing. Screening Communities: Negotiating Narratives of Empire, Nation, and the Cold War in Hong Kong Cinema. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. ix + 246 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-76-8.)

  • Cheng, Vincent Shing. Hypocrisy: The Tales and Realities of Drug Detainees in China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. vii + 164 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-68-3.)

  • Courtney, Chris. The Nature of Disaster in China: The 1931 Yangzi River Flood. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xiv + 296 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-41777-8.)

  • Da, Nan Z. Intransitive Encounter: Sino-US Literatures and the Limits of Exchange. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. x + 294 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18802-9.)

  • Dale, Melissa S. Inside the World of the Eunuch: Social History of the Emperor's Servants in Qing China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. x + 223 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-75-1.)

  • Döndrup, Tsering (trans. Christopher Peacock). The Handsome Monk and Other Stories. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2019. 201 pp. $20.00; £14.99. ISBN 978-0-23119-023-7.)

  • Duara, Prasenjit, and Perry, Elizabeth (eds.). Beyond Regimes: China and India Compared. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xvii + 341 pp. $35.00; £25.95. ISBN 978-0-674-98710-4.)

  • Fromm, Martin T. Borderland Memories: Searching for Historical identity in Post-Mao China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xiii + 290 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-1-108-47592-1.)

  • Gallagher, Kelly Sims, and Xuan, Xiaowei. Titans of the Climate: Explaining Policy Process in the United States and China. (Cambridge, MA, and London: The MIT Press, 2018. xxii + 245 pp. $28.00; £22.00. ISBN 978-0-262-53584-7.)

  • Gao, Jie, and Su, Yuanyuan. Social Mobilisation in Post-Industrial China: The Case of Rural Urbanisation. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2019. xvi + 242 pp. ISBN 978-1-78643-258-2.)

  • Ho, Ming-sho. Challenging Beijing's Mandate of Heaven: Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong' Umbrella Movement. (Philadelphia, Rome and Tokyo: Temple University Press, 2019. xvi + 269 pp. $39.95. ISBN 978-1-4399-1707-7.)

  • Holslag, Jonathan. The Silk Road Trap: How China's Trade Ambitions Challenge Europe. (Cambridge UK and Medford, MA: Polity, 2019. vii + 190 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-5095-3468-5.)

  • Horner, Charles. A China Scholar's Long March: Writing and Reflections, 1978–2015. (Portland, ME: MerwinAsia, 2018. xxiv + 329 pp. ISBN 978-1-937382-85-9.)

  • Hua, Gao (trans. Stacy Mosher and Guo Jian). How the Red Sun Rose. 1930–1945: The Origins and Development of the Yan'an Rectification Movement. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018. xviii + 812 pp. $70.00. ISBN 978-962-996-822-9.)

  • Hubbert, Jennifer. China in the World: An Anthropology of Confucius Institutes, Soft Power, and Globalization. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. viii + 234 pp. £68.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7820-7.)

  • Huei, Pang Yang. Strait Rituals: China, Taiwan, and the United States in the Taiwan Strait Crisis. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. xviii + 317 pp. ISBN 978-988-8208-30-2.)

  • Junker, Andrew. Becoming Activists in Global China: Social Movements in the Chinese Diaspora. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. x + 220 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-48299-8.)

  • Kendall, Paul. The Sounds of Social Space: Branding, Built Environment, and Leisure in Urban China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. viii + 207 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-7770-5.)

  • Lawson, Joseph. A Frontier Made Lawless: Violence in Upland Southwest China, 1800–1956. Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press. 2017. xv + 262 pp. £27.99. ISBN 978-0-7748-3370-7.)

  • Lee, Gregory B. China Imagined: From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power. (London: Hurst & Company, 2018. xxi + 231 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-1-78738-016-5.)

  • Li, Yao. Playing by the Informal Rules: Why the Chinese Regime Remains Stable despite Rising Protests. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019. xix + 207 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-47078-0.)

  • Ling, Wessie and Reinach, Simona Segre. Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape. (London and New York: I. B. Tauris, 2018. xii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-1-78453-864-4.)

  • Lintner, Bertil. The Costliest Pearl: China's Struggle for India's Ocean. (London: Hurst & Company, 2019. vii + 325 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-1-84904-996-2.)

  • Liu, Xiao. Information Fantasies: Precarious Mediation in Postsocialist China. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. 318 pp. ISBN 978-1-5179-0274-2.)

  • Luqiu, Luwei Rose. Propaganda, Media, and Nationalism in Mainland China and Hong Kong. (Lamham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2018. xv + 152 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-7314-6.)

  • Moore, Scott M. Subnational Hydropolitics: Conflict, Cooperation, and Institution-Building in Shared River Basins. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-086410-1.)

  • Noesselt, Nele (ed.). Governance Innovation and Policy Change: Recalibrations of Politics under Xi Jinping. (Lexington Books, 2019. xvi + 209 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-8024-3.)

  • Pu, Xiaopu. Rebranding China: Contested Status Signaling in the Changing Global Order. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2019. xii + 152 pp. ISBN 978-1-5036-0683-8.)

  • Rofel, Lisa, and Yanagisako, Sylvia J.. Fabricating Transnational Capitalism: A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Fashion. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2019. xiii + 377 pp. $28.95; £21.99. ISBN 978-1-4780-0045-7.)

  • Roth, Hans Ingvar. P. C. Chang and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. x + 298 pp. £74.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-5056-5.)

  • Scott, Steffanie, Si, Zhenzhong, Schumilas, Theresa and Chen, Aijuan. Organic Food and Farming in China: Top-down and Bottom-up Ecological Initiatives. (London and New York: Routledge, 2018. xi + 223 pp. £115.00. ISBN 978-1-138-57300-0.)

  • Shai, Aron. China and Israel: Chinese, Jews; Beijing, Jerusalem (1890–2018). (Boston, MA: Academic Studies Press, 2019. ix + 259 pp. ISBN 978-1-61811-895-0.)

  • Solinger, Dorothy J. (ed.). Polarized Cities: Portraits of Rich and Poor in Urban China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. v + 199 pp. ISBN 978-1-5381-1648-7.)

  • Struve, Lynn A. The Dreaming Mind and the End of the Ming World. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2019. x + 319 pp. £72.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-7525-1.)

  • Valjakka, Minna and Wang, Meiqin (eds.). Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface. (Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 323 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-94-6298-223-9.)

  • Veg, Sebastian (ed.). Popular Memories of the Mao Era: From Critical Debate to Reassessing History. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2019. vii + 244 pp. ISBN 978-988-8390-76-2.)

  • Wang, Pu. The Translatability of Revolution: Guo Morou and Twentieth-Century Chinese Culture. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Asia Center, 2018. xvi + 336 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-98718-0.)

  • Xia, Yun. Down with Traitors: Justice and Nationalism in Wartime China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. 2017. ix + 267 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-295-74286-1.)

  • Xu, Yan. The Solider Image and State-Building: Modern China, 1924–1945. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2019. viii + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-8131-7674-1.)

  • Yep, Ray, Wang, June and Johnson, Thomas (eds.). Handbook on Urban Development in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019. xiii + 416 pp. £180.00. ISBN 978-1-78643-162-2.)

  • Zhan, Shaohua. The Land Question in China: Agrarian Capitalism, Industrious Revolution, and East Asian Development. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019. xii + 278 pp. £115.00. ISBN 978-0-415-78910-3.)