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Books Received

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The China Quarterly , Volume 211 , September 2012 , pp. 885 - 887
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2012 

(April–June 2012)

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.

  • Ahrari, Ehsan M., The Great Powers versus the Hegemon. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xv + 266 pp. £57.50. ISBN 978-0-230-27891-2.)

  • Andreas, Joel, Rise of the Red Engineers: The Cultural Revolution and the Origins of China's New Class. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xvi + 344 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6078-2.)

  • Bader, Jeffrey A., Obama and China's Rise: An Insider's Account of America's Asia Strategy. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012. xix + 171 pp. ISBN 978-0-8157-2242-7.)

  • Bays, Daniel H., A New History of Christianity in China. (Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. x + 241 pp. £24.99. ISBN 978-1-4051-5955-5.)

  • Bodomo, Adams, Africans in China: A Sociocultural Study and its Implications on Africa–China Relations. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2012. xxx + 262 pp. ISBN 978-1-60497-790-5.)

  • Callahan, William A., and Barabantseva, Elena (eds.), China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xiv + 280 pp. £28.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-0383-0.)

  • Chai, Ling, A Heart for Freedom: The Remarkable Journey of a Young Dissident, Her Daring Escape, and Her Quest to Free China's Daughters. (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2012. xvi + 344 pp. ISBN 978-1-4143-6246-5.)

  • Chan, Anita (ed.), Walmart in China. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2011. 304 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-7731-7.)

  • Chiu, Stephen Wing-kai, and Wong Siu-lun (ed.), Hong Kong Divided? Structures of Social Inequality in the Twenty-First Century. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. x + 321 pp. $10.50. ISBN 978-962-441-751-7.)

  • Coase, Ronald, and Ning Wang, How China Became Capitalist. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xi + 256 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-01936-3.)

  • Cousin, Violaine, Banking in China (second edition). (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 [2007]. xix + 334 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-230-27269-9.)

  • Ding, Xiaojiong, Policy Metamorphosis in China: A Study of Minban Education in China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012. xviii + 238 pp. £44.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-2963-0.)

  • Dirlik, Arif, Culture and History in Post-Revolutionary China: The Perspective of Global Modernity. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2012. xi + 341 pp. ISBN 978-962-996-474-0.)

  • Eber, Irene, Wartime Shanghai and the Jewish Refugees from Central Europe: Survival, Co-existence, and Identity in a Multi-ethnic City. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012. xiii + 245 pp. ISBN 978-3-11-026797-6.)

  • Farquhar, Judith, and Zhang Qicheng, Ten Thousand Things: Nurturing Life in Contemporary Beijing. (New York: Zone Books, 2012, 347 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-1-4214-0383-0.)

  • Fergusson, Andy, Tracking Bodhidharma: A Journey to Heart of Chinese Culture. (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2012. xiii + 359 pp. $26.00. ISBN 978-1-58243-825-2.)

  • Florini, Ann, Lai Hairong and Tan Yeling, China Experiments: From Local Innovations to National Reform. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2012, xii + 216 pp. ISBN 978–0-8157-2200-7.)

  • Ford Campany, Robert, Signs from the Unseen Realm: Buddhist Miracle Tales from Early Modern China. (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2012. xix + 300 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3602-3.)

  • Fornés, Gastón, and Butt Philip, Alan, The China–Latin America Axis: Emerging Markets and the Future of Globalisation. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xiv + 183 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-57487-8.)

  • Graff, David A., and Higham, Robin (eds.), A Military History of China (updated edition). (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2012. xiv + 324 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-3584-7.)

  • Itoh, Mayumi, The Origin of Ping-Pong Diplomacy: The Forgotten Architect of Sino–U.S. Rapprochement. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xxii + 244 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-0-230-11813-3.)

  • Justice, Lorraine, China's Design Revolution. (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2012. xxiv + 144 pp. £15.95. ISBN 978-0-262-01742-8.)

  • Kong, Belinda, Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square: The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture. (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2012. viii + 278 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-1-4399-0759-7.)

  • Lai, Pak-sang and Byram, Michael, Re-Shaping Education for Citizenship: Democratic National Citizenship in Hong Kong. (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2012. 257 pp. £39.99. ISBN 978-1-4438-3531-2.)

  • Larus, Elizabeth Freund, Politics and Society in Contemporary China. (Boulder, CO and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. x + 489 pp. ISBN 978-1-58826-825-9.)

  • Lemos, Gerard, The End of the Chinese Dream: Why Chinese People Fear the Future. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. ix + 301 pp. £20.00. ISBN 978-0-300-16924-9.)

  • Liang, Zai, Messner, Steven F., Chen, Cheng, and Huang, Youqin (eds.), The Emergence of a New Urban China. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012. xvi + 212 pp. £37.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-7011-3.)

  • Loyalka, Michelle Dammon, Eating Bitterness: Stories from the Front Lines of China's Great Urban Migration. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2012. 264 pp. £19.95. ISBN 978-0-520-26650-6.)

  • McNeal, Robin, Conquer and Govern: Early Chinese Military Texts from the Yizhou Shu. (Honolulu: Hawai‘i University Press, 2012. viii + 246 pp. £48.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3120-2.)

  • Moyo, Dambisa, Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for the World. (New York: Basic Books, 2012. viii + 257 pp. $26.99. ISBN 978-0-465-02828-3.)

  • Nadeau, Randall L. (eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Chinese Religions. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xiii + 495 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-4051-9031-2.)

  • Napoleoni, Loretta, Maonomics: Why Chinese Communists Make Better Capitalists than We Do. (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2011. x + 373 pp. ISBN 978-60980-341-4.)

  • Nee, Victor and Opper, Sonja, Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2012. xv + 431 pp. £33.95. ISBN 978-0-674-05020-4.)

  • Nolan, Peter, Is China Buying the World? (Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2012. ix + 147 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-6078-3.)

  • Odgaard, Liselotte, China and Coexistence: Beijing's National Security Strategy for the Twenty-First Century. (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012. xiv + 242 pp. £23.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-0563-6.)

  • Ohara, Moriki, Vijayanaskar, M, and Lin, Hong (eds.), Industrial Dynamics in China and India: Firms, Clusters, and Different Growth Paths. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvi + 266 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-0-230-29878-1.)

  • Park, J. P., Art by the Book: Painting Manuals and the Leisure Life in Late Ming China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2012. xi + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99176-4.)

  • Penny, Benjamin, The Religion of Falungong. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. xiii + 262 pp. $45.00; £29.00. ISBN 978-0-226-65501-7.)

  • Roberts, J. A. G., A History of China (third edition). (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 [1999]. xxvii + 389 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-230-24984-4.)

  • Rozman, Gilbert (ed.), East Asian National Identities: Common Roots and Chinese Exceptionalism. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012. x + 283 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-8117-6.)

  • Schäfer, Dagmar (ed.), Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History. (Leiden: Brill, 2012. vii + 394 pp. €133.00; $182.00. ISBN 978-90-04-21844-4.)

  • Schlütter, Morten and Teiser, Stephen F. (eds.), Readings of the Platform Su¯tra. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. ix + 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-15821-3.)

  • Schneider, Helen M., Keeping the Nation's House: Domestic Management and the Making of Modern China. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2011. xii + 321 pp. CAN$34.95; $37.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1998-5.)

  • Schröder, Miriam, Local Climate Governance in China: Hybrid Actors and Market Mechanisms. (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. xii + 229 pp. £27.50. ISBN 978-0-230-30161-0.)

  • Shen Zhihua, trans. Neil Silver, Mao, Stalin and the Korean War: Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s. (London and New York: Routledge, 2012. xiii + 249 pp. ISBN 978-1-415-51645-7.)

  • Smith, Richard, The I Ching: A Biography. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2012. xxii + 278 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-691-14509-9.)

  • Swaine, Michael D., America's Challenge: Engaging a Rising China in the Twenty-first Century. (Washington DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2012. xiv + 671 pp. ISBN 978-1-87003-257-8.)

  • Tiffen, Mary, Friends of Sir Robert Hart: Three Generations of Carrall Women in China. (Crewkerne: Tiffania Books, 2012. xviii + 333 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-0-9570353-0-0.)

  • Tucker, Nancy Bernkopf, The China Threat: Memories, Myths and Realities in the 1950s. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xiii + 295 pp. $27.50; $39.50. ISBN 978-0231-15924-1.)

  • Vogt, Roland (ed.), Europe and China: Strategic Partners or Rivals. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2012. xvi + 283 pp. ISBN 978-988-8083-88-6.)

  • Wang, Xiuyu, China's Last Imperial Frontier: Late Qing Expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan Borderlands. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2011. xv + 290 pp. £49.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-6809-7.)

  • Wedeman, Andrew, Double Paradox: Rapid Growth and Rising Corruption in China. (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 2012. xiii + 256 pp. $26.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-7776-8.)

  • Wu, Hung, A Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture. (London: Reaktion Books, 2012. 293 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-1-86189-876-0.)

  • Yampolsky, Philip B. (trans., intro and notes by), The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch: The Text of the Ting-Huang Manuscript (reprint). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. xvi + 216 pp. ISBN 978-0231-15957-9.)

  • Zhang Miaoqing, Huang Shaolun, Yin Baoshan, and Zheng Hongtai, Aomen tequ xin mao: shi nian fazhan yu bianhua (The New Face of Macao SAR: Ten Years of Development and Change). (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2011. xii + 377 pp. $10.50. ISBN 978-962-441-590-2.)

  • Zhang, Biwu, Chinese Perceptions of the US: An Exploration of China's Foreign Policy Motivations. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2012. xvi + 266 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-7085-4.)

  • Zhang, Yingjin (ed.), A Companion to Chinese Cinema. (Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. xix + 684 pp. £120.00. ISBN 978-1-4443-3029-8.)

  • Zhou, Xun (ed.), The Great Famine in China, 1958–1962: A Documentary History. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012. xix + 204 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-17518-9.)