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.

Andrade, Tonio, How Taiwan Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. xix + 300 pp. $60.00; £35.50. ISBN 978-0-231-12855-1.)Assandri, Friederike and Martins, Dora (eds.), From Early Tang Court Debates to China's Peaceful Rise. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2009. 158 pp. ISBN 978-90-5336-795-1.)Bellacqua, James (ed.), The Future of China–Russia Relations. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2010. xi + 360 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-2563-3.)Bernstein, Thomas and Li, Hua-yu (eds.), China Learns form the Soviet Union, 1949–Present. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2010. xii + 550 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4222-6.)Bianco, Lucien, La révolution fourvoyée: Parcours dans la Chine du XXe siècle. (Paris: Editions de l'aube, 2010. 231 pp. €22.00. ISBN 978-2-8159-0054-6.)Bisley, Nick, Building Asia's Security. (London: International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2009. 159 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-58266-7.)Bond, Michael Harris (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Psychology. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. xvii + 732 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-954185-0.)Brautigam, Deborah, The Dragon's Gift: The Real Story of China in Africa. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xv + 397 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-955022-7.)Cai, Yongshun, Collective Resistance in China: Why Popular Protests Succeed or Fail. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xiv + 284 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6340-0.)Callahan, William A., China: The Pessoptimist Nation. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 266 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-19-954995-5.)Chin, Gregory T., China's Automotive Modernization: The Party-State and Multi-national Corporations. (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. xi + 301 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-0-230-22030-7.)Cheung, Gary Ka-wai, Hong Kong's Watershed: The 1967 Riots. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. viii + 241 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-089-7.)Chu, C.Y. Cyrus and Yu, Ruoh-Rong, Understanding Chinese Families: A Comparative Study of Taiwan and Southeast China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xviii + 297 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-19-957809-2.)Chu, Yin-wah (ed.), Chinese Capitalisms: Historical Emergence and Political Implications. (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2010. xiv + 248 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-57649-0.)Chung, Jae Ho and Lam, Tao-Chiu (eds.), China's Local Administration: Traditions and Changes in the Sub-National Hierarchy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiii + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-54788-8.)Cohen, Warren I., America's Response to China: A History of Sino-American Relations (fifth edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010 [1971]. xxiii + 326 pp. $27.50; £19.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15077-4.)Crossley, Pamela Kyle, The Wobbling Pivot: China since 1800. (Malden, MA and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. xvii + 307 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-4051-6080-3.)De Kloet, Jeroen, China with a Cut: Globalisation, Urban Youth and Popular Music. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2010. 255 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-162-5.)Deng, Zhenglai (ed.), China's Economy: Rural Reform and Agricultural Development. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. xxiii + 406 pp. £74.00. ISBN 978-981-4291-85-9.)Dittmer, Lowell, and Yu, George T. (eds.), China, the Developing World and the New Global Dynamic. (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2010. viii + 251 pp. ISBN 978-1-58826-726-9.)Feng, Jin, The Making of a Family Saga: Ginling College. (New York: Suny Press, 2009. viii + 314 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-2913-7.)Finlay, Robert, The Pilgrim Art: Cultures of Porcelain in World History. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2010. xvi + 415 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-520-24468-9.)Frazier, Mark. W., Socialist Insecurity: Pensions and the Politics of Uneven Development in China. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2010. x + 210 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-4822-5.)Gardella, Robert (ed.), Missions to China's Heartland: The Letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920–1941. (Portland, ME: Merwin Asia, 2009. xvii + 237 pp. ISBN 978-1-878282-91-0.)Gold, Thomas B., Hurst, William J., Won, Jaeyoun and Qiang, Li (eds.), Laid-off Workers in a Workers' State. (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. viii + 261 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-230-61370-6.)Gries, Peter Hays and Rosen, Stanley (eds.), Chinese Politics: State, Society and the Market. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiv + 279 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-56403-8.)Guo, Baogang and Hickey, Dennis (eds.). Toward Better Governance in China: An Unconventional Pathway of Political Reform. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2010. xv + 210 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4027-7.)Guo, Rongxing, How the Chinese Economy Works (Third revised edition). (Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2009. xxviii + 380 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-58100-5.)Hao, Zhidong, Whither Taiwan and Mainland China: National Identity, the State and Intellectuals. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xvi + 232 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-100-9.)Hoe, Susanna and Roebuck, Derek, The Taking of Hong Kong: Charles and Clara Elliot in China Waters. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010 [1999], xxi + 290 pp. £20.95. ISBN 978-962-209-988-3.)Holslag, Jonathan, China and India: Prospects for Peace. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. 248 pp. $37.50; £26.00. ISBN 978-0-231-15042-2.)Hsing, You-tien and Lee, Ching Kwan (eds.), Reclaiming Chinese Society: The New Social Activism. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xii + 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-49137-2.)Hsing, You-tien, The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. xiv + 258 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-956804-8.)Hsiu, Helen F. (ed.), Merchants' Daughters: Women, Commerce, and Regional Culture in South China. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xii + 375 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-969-2.)Hung, Ho-fung (ed.), China and the Transformation of Global Capitalism. (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2009. viii + 212 pp. £13.00. ISBN 978-0-8018-9308-7.)Kavalski, Emilian (ed.), China and the Global Politics of Regionalization. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2009. xi + 248 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-7546-7599-0.)King, Richard (ed.), Heroes of China's Great Leap Forward: Two Stories. (Honolulu: Hawai'i University Press, 2010. 132 pp. £15.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3436-4.)Knowles, Caroline and Harper, Douglas, Hong Kong: Migrant Lives, Landscapes, and Journeys. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. vi + 270 pp. $19.00. ISBN 978-0-226-44857-2.)Lam, Peng Er and Lim, Tai Wei, The Rise of China and India: A New Asian Drama. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2009. viii + 169 pp. £60.00. ISBN 978-981-4280-33-4.)Leng, Tse-Kang and Chu, Yun-han (eds.), Dynamics of Local Governance in China during the Reform Era. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2010. vi + 319 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-2688-2.)Lanqing, Li (trans. by Yuan, Ling and Siying, Zhang), Breaking Through: The Birth of China's Opening-up Policy. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii + 453 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-19-801692-2.)Zhehou, Li (trans. by Samei, Maija Bell), The Chinese Aesthetic Tradition. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. xix + 257 pp. $50.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3307-7.)Li, Danke, Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010. x + 215 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-252-07674-9.)Li, Xiaoxiong, Poppies and Politics in China: Sichuan Province, 1840s to 1940s. (Newark: University of Deleware Press, 2009. 308 pp. £52.50. ISBN 978-0-87413-054-6.)Lim, Bliss Vua, Translating Time: Cinema, the Fantastic, and Temporal Critique. (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 2009. xiv + 345 pp. £17.99, ISBN 978-0-8223-4510-7.)Lim, Tai Wei, Oil and Gas in China: The New Energy Superpower's Relations with Its Region. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xviii + 161 pp. ISBN 978-981-4277-94-5.)Lim, Tai Wei, Oil in China: From Self-Reliance to Internationalization. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xii + 171 pp. £59.00. ISBN 978-981-4273-76-3.)Liu, Shiyung Michael, Prescribing Colonization: The Role of Medical Practices and Policies in Japan-Ruled Taiwan, 1895–1945. (Ann Arbor, MI: Association of Asian Studies, 2009. x + 286 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-924304-57-6.)Lu, Hanchao, The Birth of a Republic: Francis Stafford's Photographs of China's 1911 Revolution and Beyond. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2010. x + 210 pp. $40.00; £26.99. ISBN 978-0-295-98940-2.)Lu, Sheldon H. and Mi, Jiayan, Chinese Ecocinema in the Age of Environmental Challenge. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xiii + 370 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-086-6.)Ma, Yuxin, Women Journalists and Feminism in China, 1838–1937. (Amherst and New York: Cambria Press, 2010. xix + 447 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-660-1.)Mair, Victor H. (ed.), The Columbia History of Chinese Literature (new paperback edition). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010 [2001]. ix + 1342 pp. $40.00; £27.50. ISBN 978-0-231-10985-7.)McMahon, Keith, Polygamy and Sublime Passion: Sexuality in China on the Verge of Modernity. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2010. vii + 215 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3376-3.)Ng, Kwai Hang, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Post-Colonial Predicament in Hong Kong. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xxiii + 328 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6165-9.)Parry, Rebecca, Xu, Yongqian and Zhang, Haizheng (eds.), China's New Enterprise Bankruptcy Law: Context, Interpretation and Application. (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2010. xiv + 357 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-7546-7637-9.)Radchenko, Sergey, Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967. (Washington and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009. xvii + 315 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-5879-6.)Richardson, Sophie, China, Cambodia and the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. x + 332 pp. $50.00; £34.50. ISBN 978-0-231-14386-8.)Salaff, Janet W., Wong, Siu-lun, and Greve, Arent, Hong Kong Movers and Stayers: Narratives of Family Migration. (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010. viii + 259 pp. $30.00. ISBN 978-0-252-07704-3.)Scott, Ian, The Public Sector in Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2010. xiv + 395 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-172-6.)Sharma, Shalendra D., China and India in the Age of Globalization. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xi + 321 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-73136-2.)Sheng, Andrew, From Asian to Global Financial Crisis: An Asian Regulator's View of Unfettered Finance in the 1990s and 2000s. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xii + 489 pp. $29.99. ISBN 978-0-521-13415-6.)Tam, Kwok-kan and Yip, Terry Siu-han (eds.), Gender, Discourse and the Self in Literature: Issues in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2009. xxx + 261 pp. ISBN 978-962-996-399-6.)Tilt, Bryan, The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China: Environmental Values and Civil Society. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xvi + 216 pp. $29.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-231-15001-9.)Tong, James W., Revenge of the Forbidden City: The Suppression of the Falungong in China, 1999–2005. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. 282 pp. £32.50. ISBN 978-0-19-537728-6.)Tow, William T., Security Politics in the Asia-Pacific: A Regional–Global Nexus. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. xvi + 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-521-75882-6.)Tsai, Weipin, Reading Shenbao: Nationalism, Consumerism and Individuality in China, 1919–37. (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. xxi + 249 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-01982-9.)Tse, Edward, The China Strategy: Harnessing the Power of the World's Fastest-Growing Economy. (New York: Basic Books, 2010. vii + 247 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-465-01825-3.)Turner, Bryan S. and Zheng, Yangwen (eds.), The Body in Asia. (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2009. ix + 230 pp. ISBN 978-1-845545-550-7.)Walder, Andrew G., The Beijing Red Guard Movement: Fractured Rebellion. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xii + 400 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-03503-4.)Whyte, Martin King, Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010. xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6942-6.)Wu, Fei, Suicide and Justice: A Chinese Perspective. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xv + 216 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55171-7.)Wu, Shicun and Zou, Keyuan, Maritime Security in the South China Sea: Regional Implications and International Cooperation. (Farnham, Surrey and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Ltd., 2009. xi + 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-7546-7727-7.)Wyatt, Don J., The Blacks of Pre-Modern China. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 198 pp. $42.00. ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8.)Yan, Yunxiang, The Individualization of Chinese Society. (Oxford and New York: Berg, 2009. xl + 304 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-84788-378-0.)Yang, Xiaoneng, Tracing the Past, Drawing the Future: Master Ink Painters in Twentieth-Century China. (Milan, Italy: 5 Continents, 2010. 440 pp. ISBN 978-88-7439-538-5.)Zhang, Yingjin, Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China. (Honolulu: University of Hawa'i Press, 2010. xii + 257 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3337-4.)Zhao, Litao and Lin, Tin Seng (eds.), China's New Social Policy. (New Jersey, London, Singapore, Hong Kong: World Scientific, 2010. xvi + 228 pp. £66.00. ISBN 978-981-4277-73-0.)