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Books Received

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The China Quarterly , Volume 261 , March 2025 , pp. 290 - 292
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London

October–December 2024

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.

  • Berry, Chris, Ghermani, Wafa, Neri, Corrado, Rawnsley, Ming-yeh (eds.). Taiwanese-Language Cinema: Rediscovered and Reconsidered. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 288 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781399527880.)

  • Boittin, Margaret L. The Regulation of Prostitution in China: Law in the Everyday Lives of Sex Workers, Police Officers, and Public Health Officials. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 430 pp. £105.00. ISBN 9781107179226.)

  • Chard, Robert. Recovering Confucian Authority: The Field of Ritual Learning in Early Imperial China 9 to 316 CE. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €89.00. ISBN 9789004713673.)

  • Chen, Jie (ed.). Taiwan and the Cause of Democratization in China: Inspiration and Support. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2024. 188 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781802205725.)

  • Fong, Brian C. H. US-China Rivalry: Great Power Competition in the Indo-Pacific. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 344 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781399534161.)

  • Handel, Zev J. Chinese Characters Across Asia: How the Chinese Script Came to Write Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2025. $110.0. ISBN 9780295753010.)

  • Hang, Xin. The Port: Hà Tiên and the Mo Clan in Early Modern Asia. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 374 pp. £80.00. ISBN 9781009426985.)

  • He, Xin. The Judicial System of China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 288 pp. £24.99. ISBN 9780198927778.)

  • Henderson, Julian, Morgan, Stephen L. and Salonia, Matteo (eds.). Reimagining the Silk Roads: Interactions and Perceptions Across Eurasia. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 370 pp. £135.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781032391311.)

  • Ho, Ming-sho. Be Water: Collective Improvisation in Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Protests. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2025. 252 pp. $110.50. ISBN 9781439924846.)

  • Hou, Xiaoshuo. Young and Restless in China: Informal Economy, Gender, and the Precariat. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 170 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781009511681.)

  • Keim, Anna Beth. Heaven Does Not Block All Roads: A History of Taiwan Through the Life of Huang Chin-tao. (London: Hurst, 2025. 352 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781911723622.)

  • Krause, Theresa. Corporate Compliance and the Social Credit System in China: A Firm-Centered Perspective on the Regulatory State. (Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2024. 429 pp. €114.00. ISBN 9783756024360.)

  • Kupś, Hanna, Szatkowski, Maciej and Dahl, Michał. China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €195.00. ISBN 9789004690844.)

  • Lachman, Lev. Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2025. 216 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780295753928.)

  • Lammer, Christof. Performing State Boundaries: Food Networks, Democratic Bureaucracy and China. (New York: Berghahn Books, 2024. 272 pp. $135.00; £104.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781805396512.)

  • Lee, Francis L. F. Pro-Democracy Contention in Hong Kong: Relational Dynamics between the Umbrella Movement and the Anti-Extradition Protests. (New York: SUNY Press, 2025. 323 pp. $130.00. ISBN 9798855801088.)

  • Leutert, Wendy. China's State-Owned Enterprises: Leadership, Reform, and Internationalization. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 230 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9781009486545.)

  • Li, Cheng. Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2025. 294 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781503640306.)

  • Lin, Carlos Yu-Kai, and Mair, Victor H. (eds.). New Vocabularies of May Fourth Studies. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €129.00. ISBN 9789004693326.)

  • Lin, James. In the Global Vanguard: Agrarian Development and the Making of Modern Taiwan. (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2025. 303 pp. $34.95; £30.00. ISBN 9780520398665.)

  • Long, Yan. Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Epidemic Politics in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 408 pp. £29.99. ISBN 9780190900199.)

  • López, Ruth Mandujano. Steamships across the Pacific: Maritime Journeys between Mexico, China, and Japan, 1867–1914. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 204 pp. HK$500.00; US$70.00. ISBN 9789888876761.)

  • Lu, Lex. Appearance Politics: Legitimacy Building in Late Imperial and Modern China. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 324 pp. $58.95. ISBN 9781501777851.)

  • Ming, Wan. Chinese Foreign Relations: Reflections on Knowledge Production. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2024. 344 pp. £120.00. ISBN 9781800615915.)

  • Moore, Aaron William, and Altehenger, Jennifer (eds.). How Maoism Was Made: Reconstructing China, 1949–1965. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 384 pp. $155.00. ISBN 9780197267813.)

  • Roche, Gerald. The Politics of Language Oppression in Tibet. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 264 pp. $36.95. ISBN 9781501777783.)

  • Schatz, Edward, and Silvey, Rachel (eds.). Seeing China's Belt and Road. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 272 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780197789278.)

  • Spires, Anthony J. Everyday Democracy: Civil Society, Youth, and the Struggle Against Authoritarian Culture in China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 312 pp. $35.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231211512.)

  • Tang, Pao-chen, Yan, Yuqian, Zhang, Ling (eds.). Socializing Medicine: Health Humanities and East Asian Media. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2025. 284 pp. HK$480.00; US$68.00. ISBN 9789888876815.)

  • Thurston, Timothy. Satirical Tibet: The Politics of Humor in Contemporary Amdo. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2025. 236 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9780295753119.)

  • Vakulabharanam, Vamsi. Class and Inequality in China and India, 1950–2010. (Oxford University Press, 2024. 306 pp. £99.00. ISBN 9780198934127.)

  • van Enckevort, Paul. A Stairway to Heaven: Daoist Self-Cultivation in Early Modern China. (Leiden: Brill, 2025. €149.00. ISBN 9789004695696.)

  • Westad, Odd-Arne, and Jian, Chen. The Great Transformation: China's Road from Revolution to Reform. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2024. 424 pp. £30.00. ISBN 9780300267082.)

  • Wong, Man Kong, and Wah Mak, George Kam (eds.). Christianity and Education in Modern China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 324 pp. HK$580.00; US$80.00. ISBN 9789888842995.)

  • Wu, Fulong, and Zhang, Fangzhu. Governing Urban Development in China: Critical Urban Studies. (New York and London: Routledge, 2025. 222 pp. £35.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781032408965.)

  • Xu, Jing. “Unruly” Children: Historical Fieldnotes and Learning Morality in a Taiwan Village. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 290 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9781009416252.)

  • Yan, Xiaojun. Engineering Stability: Rebuilding the State in Twenty-First Century Chinese Universities. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 238 pp. $29.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780472057054.)

  • Yin, Qingfei. State Building in Cold War Asia: Comrades and Competitors on the Sino-Vietnamese Border. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 314 pp. £90.00. ISBN 9781009426640.)

  • Yin, Yanhong. The Idea of a China Arrest Warrant: Surrender of Fugitive Offenders between Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 256 pp. HK$495.00. ISBN 9789888876839.)

  • Zhang, Qianfan. Constitutional Reforms in China: Past, Present, Future. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 344 pp. £100.00. ISBN 9781009504119.)