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.

Alpermann, Björn, China's Cotton Industry: Economic Transformation and State Capacity. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiv + 258 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55237-0.)Bickers, Robert, The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832–1914. (London, New York and Toronto: Penguin Books, 2011. xv + 496 pp. £30.00. ISBN 978-0-713-99749-1.)Björksten, Johan and Hägglund, Andres, How to Manage a Successful Business in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xii + 222 pp. £18.00. ISBN 978-981-4287-82-1.)Brown, Kerry, Ballot Box in China: Grassroots Democracy in the Final Major One-Party State. (London and New York: Zed Books, 2011. viiii + 184 pp. £16.99; $29.95. ISBN 978-1-84813-820-9.)Bulag, Uradyn E., Collaborative Nationalism: The Politics of Friendship on China's Mongolian Frontier. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto, Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2010. xv + 281 pp. £49.95. ISBN 978-1-4422-0431-7.)Chan, Chris King-Chi, The Challenge of Labour in China: Strikes and the Changing Labour Regime in Global Factories. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. x + 201 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55703-0.)The Chinese Development Bank and Renmin University of China, Development Finance in China: Bond Market Innovation. (Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. xi + 264 pp. ISBN 978-981-4298-14-8.)The Chinese Development Bank and Renmin University of China, Development Finance in China: Theory and Implementation. (Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. xiv + 464 pp. ISBN 978-981-4298-10-0.)The Chinese Development Bank and Renmin University of China, Development Finance in China: Case Studies. (Singapore: Enrich Professional Publishing, 2011. ix + 528 pp. ISBN 978-981-4298-12-4.)Chow, Gregory C. Interpreting China's Economy. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. ix + 288 pp. £18.00. ISBN 978-981-4317-95-5.)Chu, Julie Y. Cosmologies of Credit: Transnational Mobility and the Politics of Destination in China. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. xi + 343 pp. £16.99. ISBN 798-0-8223-4806-1.)Cody, Jeffrey W., Steinhardt, Nancy S. and Atkin, Tony (eds.), Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts. (Honolulu: University of Hawai”i Press; Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xxi + 385 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-3456-2.)Dean, Kenneth and Zheng, Zhenman, Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume One: Historical Introduction to the Return of the Gods. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xv + 404 pp. €103.00; $152.00. ISBN 978-90-04-17602-7.)Dean, Kenneth and Zheng, Zhenman, Ritual Alliances of the Putian Plain. Volume Two: A Survey of Village Temples and Ritual Activities. (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2010. xxx + 1060 pp. €185.00; $263.00. ISBN 978-90-04-17601-0.)Duckett, Jane, The Chinese State's Retreat from Health: Policy and the Politics of Retrenchment. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xii + 146 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-57389-4.)Eggleston, Karen, and Tuljapurkar, Shripad (eds.), Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. (Stanford, CA: The Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center, 2010. xii + 213 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-1-931368-20-9.)Erickson, Andrew S., Goldstein, Lyle L. and Li, Nan (eds.), China, the United States and 21st-Century Sea Power: Defining a Maritime Security Partnership. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2010. xxix + 529 pp. ISBN 978-1-59114-243-0.)Esherick, Joseph W., Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History. (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2011. xvi + 374 pp. £16.95. ISBN 978-0-520-26700-8.)Fardoust, Shahrokh, Kim, Yongbeom, and Sepúlveda, Claudia, (eds.), Postcrisis Growth and Development: A Development Agenda for the G-20. (Washington DC: The World Bank, 2011. xxxiv + 548 pp. ISBN 978-0-8213-8518-0.)Feng, Huiling, The Humanistic Values of the Beijing Olympics. (Hong Kong and Beijing: Silk Road Press, 2011. ix + 318 pp. ISBN 978-981429866-7.)Fleischer, Frederike, Suburban Beijing: Housing and Consumption in Contemporary China. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010. xxxv + 219 pp. ISBN 978-0-8166-6587-7.)Gaenssbauer, Monika, Confucianism and Social Issues in China – the Academician Kang Xiaoguang: Investigations into NGOs in China, the Falun Gong, Chinese Reportage, and the Confucian Tradition. (Freiburg: Projektverlag, 2011. 122 pp. ISBN 978-3-89733-230-0; ISSN 0946-2325.)Gallagher, Kevin P. and Porzecanski, Roberto, The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xiii + 182 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7188-7.)Goossaert, Vincent and Palmer, David A., The Religious Question in Modern China. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2011. xi + 464 pp. $40.00; £26.00. ISBN 978-0-2226-30416-8.)Hao, Yufan and Wang, Jianwei (eds.), Macao and Sino–U.S. Relations. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2011. vii + 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-4367-4.)Hao, Zhidong, Macau History and Society. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xvii + 294 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-54-2.)Hill, Emily M. Smokeless Sugar: The Death of a Provincial Bureaucrat and the Construction of China's National Economy. (Vancouver and Toronto: UBC Press, 2011. xii + 318 pp. £32.95; $35.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1645-0.)Ho, Eric Peter, Tracing My Children's Lineage. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2010. xvii + 372 pp. ISBN 978-962-8269-54-9.)Ho, Wing-Chung, The Transition Study of Postsocialist China: An Ethnographic Study of a Model Community. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xv + 265 pp. £53.00. ISBN 978-981-4307-62-8.)Hood, Johanna, HIV/AIDS, Health and the Media in China: Imagined Immunities through Racialized Disease. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xi + 244 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-47198-5.)Kim, Mikyoung and Schwartz, Barry (eds.), Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory. (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. xiv + 276 pp. ISBN 978-0-230-23747-6.)Lagerkvist, Johan, After the Internet, before Democracy: Competing Norms in Chinese Media and Society. (Bern: Peter Lang, 2010. 325 pp. £45.80. ISBN 978-3-0343-0435-1.)Lai, David Chuenyan, Chinese Community Leadership: Case Study of Victoria in Canada. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xxxi + 250 pp. £38.00. ISBN 978-981-4295-17-8.)Lai, Hongyi, The Domestic Sources of China's Foreign Policy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010. xiv + 202 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-56237-9.)Lawson, Francesca R. Sborgi, The Narrative Arts of Tianjin: Between Music and Language. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. xii + 198 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-0588-7.)Leung, Angela Ki Che, and Furth, Charlotte (eds.), Health and Hygiene in Chinese East Asia: Policies and Publics in the Long Twentieth Century. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010. viii + 337 pp. £16.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-4826-9.)Li, Cheng (ed.), China's Emerging Middle Class: Beyond Economic Transformation. (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2010. xviii + 396 pp. £23.99. ISBN 978-0-8157-0405-8.)Li, Yuwen (ed.), NGOs in China and Europe: Comparisons and Contrasts. (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. xix + 319 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-1959-4.)Liu Currier, Carrie and Dorraj, Manochehr (eds.), China's Energy Relations with the Developing World. (New York and London: Continuum, 2011. xii + 221 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-4411-4104-0.)Liu, Gordon G., Zhang, Zhufang, and Zhang, Zongyi (eds.), Investing in Human Capital for Economic Development in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xx + 401 pp. £93.00. ISBN 978-981-281-441-8.)Liu, Guofu, Chinese Immigration Law. (Farnham, UK, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2011. X + 223 pp. £55.00. ISBN 978-1-4094-0940-3.)Liu, Xiaobo (texts selected, translated and introduced by Jean-Philippe Béja), La philosophie du porc et autres essais. (Paris: Bleu de Chine, 2011. 518 pp. €26.00. ISBN 978-2-07-013250-8.)Ma, Rong, Population and Society in Contemporary Tibet. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xviii + 390 pp. ISBN 978-962-209-202-0.)Marsh, Christopher, Religion and the State in Russia and China: Suppression, Survival, and Revival. (New York and London: Continuum, 2011. x + 273 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-1-4411-1247-7.)Meng, Fanhua, The Phenomenon of Chinese Culture at the Turn of the 21st Century. (Hong Kong and Beijing: Silk Road Press, 2011. xxi + 322 pp. ISBN 978-981-4332-35-4.)Miller, Alice Lyman, and Wich, Richard, Becoming Asia: Change and Continuity in Asian International Relations since World War II. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xiv + 314 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-7151-1.)Mok, Ka Ho and Ku, Yeun-Wen (eds.), Social Cohesion in Greater China: Challenges for Social Policy and Governance. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xix + 374 pp. £82.00. ISBN 978-981-4291-92-7.)Morris-Suzuki, Tessa, To the Diamond Mountains: A Hundred-Year Journey through China and Korea. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2010. xiii + 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-4422-0503-1.)O'Brien, Kevin and Zhao, Suisheng (eds.), Grassroots Elections in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xvi + 235 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-57157-9.)Ong, Aihwa and Chen, Nancy N. (eds.), Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. vii + 335 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4809-2.)Peattie, Mark, Drea, Edward, and van de Ven, Hans (eds.), The Battle for China: Essays on the Military History of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937–1945. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011. xxv + 614 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-6206-9.)Poon, Shuk-wah, Negotiating Religion in Modern China: State and Common People in Guangzhou, 1900–1937. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2011. ix + 208 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-962-996-421-4.)Potter, Pitman B. Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xvi + 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-56405-2.)Saich, Tony, Governance and Politics of China (3rd edition). (Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. xvi + 428 pp. £25.99. ISBN 978-0-230-27993-3.)Sapio, Flora, Sovereign Power and the Law in China. (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2010. xi + 364 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-18245-5.)Sawyer, Ralph D. Ancient Chinese Warfare. (New York: Basic Books, 2011. xiv + 554 pp. $39.99; CAN$46.00. ISBN 978-0-465-02145-1.)Shirk, Susan L., Changing Media, Changing China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. vi + 281 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-975197-6.)Sit, Victor F. S.Chinese City and Urbanism: Evolution and Equipment. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xxii + 332 pp. £34.00. ISBN 978-981-4293-72-3.)Terrill, Ross (Luosi Teli'er), Wo yu Zhongguo (Myself and China). (Beijing: Zhongguo renmin daxue chubanshe, 2010. 358 pp. ISBN 978-7-300-12596-1.)Topley, Marjorie (essays by), edited and introduced by DeBernardi, Jean, Cantonese Society in Hong Kong and Singapore: Gender, Religion, Medicine and Money. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2011. xii + 609 pp. ISBN 978-988-8028-14-6.)Warner, Malcolm, and Rowley, Chris (eds.), Chinese Management in the “Harmonious Society”: Managers, Markets and the Globalized Economy. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. ix + 229 pp. £80.00. ISBN 978-0-415-57242-2.)Yang, Fenggang and Lang, Graeme (eds.), Social Scientific Studies of Religion in China: Methodology, Theories, and Findings. (Leiden: Brill, 2011. xi + 312 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-18246-2.)Ye, Zicheng (edited and translated by Levine, Steven I. and Wu, Guoli), Inside China's Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People's Republic. (Lexington: Kentucky University Press, 2011. xii + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-8131-2645-6.)Zha, Jianying, Tide Players: The Movers and Shakers of a Rising China. (New York and London: The New Press, 2011. 228 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-1-59558-620-9.)Zhang, Everett, Kleinman, Arthur, and Tu, Weiming (eds.), Governance of Life in Chinese Moral Experience: The Quest for an Adequate Life. (London and New York: Routledge, 2011. xv + 278 pp. £28.99. ISBN 978-0-415-59719-7.)Zhang, Wenxian and Alon, Ilan (eds.), A Guide to the Top 100 Companies in China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xxiii + 313 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-981-4291-46-0.)Zhang, Xiaobo, Fan, Shenggen, and de Haan, Arjan (eds.), Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. x + 190 pp. £61.00. ISBN 978-981-4293-30-3.)Zhao, Dingxin, Guojia–shehui guanxi yu jiuba Beijing xuedong (The Power of Tiananmen: State–Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement (second edition). (Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2010. lxv + 389 pp. ISBN 978-962-996-252-4.)Zheng, Yongnian and Tong, Sarah Y. (eds.), China and the Global Economic Crisis. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2010. xiii + 294 pp. £58.00. ISBN 978-981-4287-70-8.)