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Books Received

(January–March 2013)

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The China Quarterly , Volume 214 , June 2013 , pp. 505 - 507
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2013 

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.

  • Anagnost, Ann, Arai, Andrea and Ren, Hai (eds.), Global Futures in East Asia: Youth, Nation, and the New Economy in Uncertain Times. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. x + 311 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8047-7618-9.)

  • Bosker, Bianca, Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xii + 161 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3606-1.)

  • Brown, Kerry, Contemporary China. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. xvi + 216 pp. £22.95; $35.00. ISBN 978-1-137-28157-9.)

  • China Industrial Map Committee, China Economic Monitoring and Analysis Center, and Xinhua Holding, China, Industrial Map of China's Financial Sectors. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. ix + 284 pp. £38.00. ISBN 978-981-4412-60-5.)

  • Clark, Peter (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xxiv + 882 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-958953-1.)

  • Corkin, Lucy, Uncovering African Agency: Angola's Management of China's Credit Lines. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xiii + 244 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-4865-5.)

  • Cwiertka, Katarzyna J., Food and War in Mid-Twentieth Century East Asia. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xiii + 196 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-4675-0.)

  • Dudbridge, Glen, A Portrait of Five Dynasties China: From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880–956). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 272 pp. £75.00; $150.00. ISBN 978-0-19-967068-0.)

  • Elleman, Bruce A., Kotkin, Stephen and Schofield, Clive (eds.), Beijing's Power and China's Borders: Twenty Neighbors in Asia. (Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2013. xvii + 371 pp. $38.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-2764-3.)

  • Gao, Bei, Shanghai Sanctuary: Chinese and Japanese Policy toward European Jewish Refugees during World War II. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. x + 185 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-984090-8.)

  • Gentz, Joachim, Understanding Chinese Religions. (Edinburgh and London: Dunedin, 2013. xv + 160 pp. £12.50; €19.00; $22.00. ISBN 978-1-903765-77-7.)

  • Gross, Donald, The China Fallacy: How the U.S. Can Benefit from China's Rise and Avoid Another Cold War. (New York, London, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2012. ix + 295 pp. ISBN 978-1-4411-4789-9.)

  • Henriot, Christian, and Yeh, Wen-Hsin (eds.), Visualizing China, 1845–1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2013. xxxiii + 489 pp. €158.00; S220.00. ISBN 978-90-04-22820-7.)

  • Hipsher, Scott A., The Private Sector's Role in Poverty Reduction in Asia. (Oxford, Cambridge and New Delhi: Chandos, 2013. xx + 328 pp. £85.00; $145.00. ISBN 978-0-85709-448-3.)

  • Huang, Wei-Chiao, and Zhou, Huizhong (eds.), Dragon vs. Eagle: The Chinese Economy and U.S.-China Relations. (Kalamazoo: MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2012. vii + 200 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-88099-403-3.)

  • Kavalski, Emilian, Central Asia and the Rise of Normative Powers: Contextualizing the Security Governance of the European Union, China, and India. (New York, London, New Delhi and Sydney: Bloomsbury, 2012. x + 232 pp. £19.99, ISBN 978-1-4411-8973-8.)

  • Kennedy, Andrew Bingham, The International Ambitions of Mao and Nehru: National Efficacy Beliefs and the Making of Foreign Policy. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. ix + 261 pp. $99.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19351-1.)

  • Kipnis, Andrew B. (ed.), Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. vi + 236 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-137-26895-2.)

  • Lam, Peng Er, Yaqing, Qin and Mu, Yang (eds.), China and East Asia: After the Wall Street Crisis. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xxi + 308 pp. £69.00. ISBN 978-981-4407-26-7.)

  • Laruelle, Marlène, and Peyrouse, Sébastien, The Chinese Question in Central Asia: Domestic Order, Social Changes, and the Chinese Factor. (London: Hurst and Company, 2012. vii + 271 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-184904-179-9.)

  • Li, Xiaobing, and Fang, Qiang (eds.), Modern Chinese Legal Reform: New Perspectives. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013. xxx + 284 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-4120-6.)

  • Liang, Wei, and Khilji, Faizullah, China and East Asia's Post-Crises Community: A Region in Flux. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012. ix + 189 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-7082-3.)

  • Link, Perry, An Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics. (Cambridge, MA, and London: Harvard University Press, 2013. viii + 367 pp. £29.95. ISBN 978-0-674-06602-1.)

  • Liu, Lydia H., Karl, Rebecca E. and Ko, Dorothy, The Birth of Chinese Feminism: Essential Texts in Transnational Theory. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xii + 308 pp. $29.50; £20.50, ISBN 978-0-231-16291-3.)

  • Lu, Xueyi (ed.), Social Structure of Contemporary China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. xxviii + 444 pp. £91.00. ISBN 978-981-4383-22-6.)

  • Ma, Jianbo, The Land Development Game in China. (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2012. xvii + 267 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-6958-2.)

  • Mair, Victor H., Chen, Sanping and Wood, Frances, Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization. (London: Thames & Hudson, 2013. 232 pp. £18.95. ISBN 978-0-500-25192-8.)

  • McConville, Mike, and Pelis, Eva (eds.), Comparative Perspectives on Criminal Justice in China. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2013. xix + 593 pp. £125.00; $199.95. ISBN 978-1-78195-585-7.)

  • Meyer-Fong, Tobie, What Remains: Coming to Terms with Civil War in 19th Century China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. xiii + 316 pp. $40.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-5425-5.)

  • Mosca, Matthew W., From Frontier Policy to Foreign Policy: The Question of India and the Transformation of Geopolitics in Qing China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. viii + 398 pp. $60.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-8224-1.)

  • Osburg, John, Anxious Wealth: Money and Morality Among China's New Rich. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. x + 234 pp. $22.95. ISBN 978-0-8047-8354-5.)

  • Pickowicz, Paul G., China on Film: A Century of Exploration, Confrontation, and Controversy. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2012. x + 364 pp. £21.95; £35.00. ISBN 978-1-4422-1179-7.)

  • Pierson, Stacey, From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xv + 169 pp. $50.00; £34.50. ISBN 978-988-8139-83-5.)

  • Racknitz, Ines Eben V., Die Plünderung des Yuanming yuan: Imperiale Beutenahme im british-französischen Chinafeldzug von 1860. (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2012. 328 pp. ISBN 978-3-515-10241-4.)

  • Ren, Xuifei, Urban China. (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2013. xx + 218 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-5359-4.)

  • Rozman, Gilbert (ed.), National Identities and Bilateral Relations: Widening Gaps in East Asia and Chinese Demonization of the United States. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. ix + 277 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8476-4.)

  • Shambaugh, David, China Goes Global: The Partial Power. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xvi + 409 pp. £20.00; $29.95. ISBN 978-0-19-986014-2.)

  • Shao, Qin, Shanghai Gone: Domicide and Defiance in a Chinese Megacity. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. xviii + 306 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-1132-2.)

  • Sheng, Hong, and Nong, Zhao, China's State-Owned Enterprises: Nature, Performance and Reform. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xxxiii + 372 pp. £78.00. ISBN 978-981-4383-84-4.)

  • Shih, Shu-mei, Tsai, Chien-hsin and Bernards, Brian (eds.), Sinophone Studies: A Critical Reader. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013. xi + 460 pp. $40.00; £27.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15751-3.)

  • Shin, Doh Chull, Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. x + 366 pp. $28.99, ISBN 978-1-107-63178-6.)

  • Sinn, Elizabeth, Pacific Crossing: California Gold, Chinese Migration, and the Making of Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2013. xv + 454 pp. ISBN 978-988-8139-71-2.)

  • Song, Ligang, and Liu, Haimin (eds.), The Chinese Steel Industry's Transformation: Structural Change, Performance and Demand on Resources. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2012. x + 183 pp. ISBN 978-1-84844-658-8.)

  • Sun, Feiyu, Social Suffering and Political Confession: Suku in Modern China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xix + 197 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-981-4407-29-8.)

  • Swanström, Niklas, and Kokubun, Ryosei (eds.), Sino-Japanese Relations: Rivals or Partners in Regional Cooperation? (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xv + 223 pp. £59.00. ISBN 978-981-4383-55-4.)

  • Tam, Waikeung, Legal Mobilization under Authoritarianism: The Case of Post-Colonial Hong Kong. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. xiii + 219 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-03199-9.)

  • Tian, Min, Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xi + 298 pp. £62.00. ISBN 978-0-230-11244-5.)

  • Wallis, Cara, Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones. (New York and London: New York University Press, 2013. xiii + 263 pp. £45.00. ISBN 978-0-8147-9526-2.)

  • Wang, Chin, The United States and China Since World War II: A Brief History. (Armonk, NY, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2013. xii + 218 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-2990-6.)

  • Wang, Dong, The United States and China: A History from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013. xi + 377 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7425-5782-6.)

  • Wang, Gungwu, and Yongnian, Zheng (eds.), China: Development and Governance. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xiv + 541 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-981-4425-83-4.)

  • Woo, Wing Thye, Lu, Ming, Sachs, Jeffrey D. and Chen, Zhao (eds.), A New Economic Growth Engine for China: Escaping the Middle-income Trap by Not Doing More of the Same. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. xii + 294 pp. £26.00. ISBN 978-981-4425-54-4.)

  • Yang, Mu, and Siam-Heng, Michael Heng, Global Financial Crisis and Challenges for China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2012. vii + 133 pp. £36.00. ISBN 978-981-4282-27-7.)

  • Zhao, Gang, The Qing Opening to the Ocean: Chinese Maritime Policies, 1684–1757. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2013. viii + 267 pp. £56.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3643-6.)

  • Zhao, Jinjun, and Chen, Zhirui, Participation and Interaction: The Theory and Practice of China's Diplomacy. (Hackensack, NJ: World Century, 2013. x + 279 pp. £55.00; $83.00. ISBN 978-1-938134-04-3.)

  • Zhao, Yongjun, China's Disappearing Countryside: Towards Sustainable Land Governance for the Poor. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013. xi + 161 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-2821-3.)

  • Zheng, Yongnian, and Lye, Liang Fook (eds.), East Asia: Developments and Challenges. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. xiv + 192 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-981-4407-82-3.)

  • Zheng, Yongnian, and Wong, John (eds.), Goh Keng Swee on China: Selected Essays. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2013. vii + 190 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-981-4407-23-6.)