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Books received

(April–June 2018)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2018

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The China Quarterly , Volume 235 , September 2018 , pp. 912 - 914
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2018 

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.

  • Bakken, Børge (ed.). Crime and the Chinese Dream. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. vii + 169 pp. ISBN 978-988-8208-66-1.)

  • Bao, Hongwei. Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. (Copenhagen, NiAS Press, 2018. xii + 265 pp. ISBN 978-87-7694-236-6.)

  • Bianco, Lucien. Stalin and Mao: A Comparison of the Russian and Chinese Revolutions. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2018. xxv + 448 pp. $65.00. ISBN 978-988-237-065-4.)

  • Brook, Timothy, Van Walt Van Praag, Michael and Boltjes, Miek. Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations since Chinggis Khan. (University of Chicago Press, 2018. xiii + 277 pp. $35.00; £26.00. ISBN 978-0-226-56276-6.)

  • Burton, Guy. Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xviii + 186 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-5195-3.)

  • Cabestan, Jean-Pierre. Demain la Chine: Démocratie ou dictature? (Paris: Gallimard, 2018. 288 pp. €20.00. ISBN 978-2-07-278766-9.)

  • Chen, Chien-Kai. Political Economy of China-Taiwan Relations: Origins and Development. (Lexington Books, 2018. xvii + 223 pp. $95.00; £65.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-6805-0.)

  • Chen, Ling. Manipulating Globalization: The Influence of Bureaucrats on Business in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. xviii + 207 pp. ISBN 978-1-5036-0479-7.)

  • Cheung, Gordon C.K. China in the Global Political Economy: From Developmental to Entrepreneurial. (Cheltenham, Glos.: Edward Elgar, 2018. xiv + 197 pp. ISBN 978-1-987471-490-1.)

  • Chi, Pang-yuan. The Great Flower River: A Memoir of China, from Manchuria to Taiwan. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxv + 436 pp. $35.00; £27.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18840-1.)

  • Choy, Armando, Chui, Gustavo and Wong, Moisés Sío. Our History is Still Being Written: The Story of Three Cuban Generals on the Cuban Revolution. (New York, London, Montreal and Sydney: Pathfinder, 2017. 221 pp. ISBN 978-1-60488-102-8.)

  • Collett, Nigel. A Death in Hong Kong: The MacLennan Case of 1980 and the Suppression of a Scandal. (Hong Kong: City University of Hong Kong Press, 2018. xxx + 499 pp. ISBN 978-962-937-347-4.)

  • Dillon, Michael. Lesser Dragons: Minority Peoples of China. (Reaktion Books, 2018. 288 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-1-78023911-8.)

  • Economy, Elizabeth C. The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xiv + 343 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-086607-5.)

  • Eisenman, Joshua. Red China's Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development Under the Commune. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxxiii + 436 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-18667-4.)

  • Erickson, Brita (ed.). Modern Ink: The Art of Wu Changshi. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. 168 pp. ISBN 978-0-8248-7403-2.)

  • Fan, Xing. Staging Revolution: Artistry and Aesthetics in Model Beijing Opera during the Cultural Revolution. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. xiii + 288 pp. $65.00; £50.00. ISBN 978-988-8455-81-2.)

  • Fürst, Juliane, Pons and Mark Selden, Silvio (eds.). Communism. Volume III: Endgames, Late Communism in Global Perpsective, 1968 to the Present. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. xv + 645 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-13564-2.)

  • Gibbs, Levi S. Song King: Connecting People, Places, and Past in Contemporary China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. viii + 271 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-6990-8.)

  • Goodstadt, Leo F. A City Mismanaged: Hong Kong's Struggle for Survival. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. xi + 227 pp. ISBN 978-988-8455-98-0.)

  • Gottschang, Suzanne. Formulas for Motherhood in a Chinese Hospital. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. xi + 246 pp. ISBN 978-0-472-13075-7.)

  • Han, Rongbin. Contesting Cyberspace in China: Online Expression and Authoritarian Resilience. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xvi + 315 pp. $30.00; £24.95. ISBN 978-0-231-18475-5.)

  • Horesh, Niv and Lim, Kean Fan. An East Asian Challenge to Western Neoliberalism: Critical Perspectives on the “China Model.” (Routledge, 2018. viii + 171 pp. £105.00. ISBN 978-1-138-92674-5.)

  • Huang, Martin W. Intimate Memory: Gender and Mourning in Late Imperial China. (New York: State University of New York Press, 2018. vii + 224 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-6899-0.)

  • Jacobs, Bruce J. The Kaohsiung Incident in Taiwan and Memoirs of a Foreign Big Beard. (Leiden: Brill, 2018. xi + 178 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-31601-0.)

  • Jeans, Robert B. (ed.). The Letters and Diaries of Colonel John Hart Caughey 1944–1945: With Wedemeyer in World War II China. (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018. xxix + 227 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-7497-6.)

  • Jia, Jinhua. Gender, Power and Talent: The Journey of Daoist Priestesses in Tang China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxvi + 324 pp. $70.00; £58.95. ISBN 978-0-231-18444-1.)

  • Kinzley, Judd C. Natural Resources and the New Frontier: Constructing Modern China's Borderlands. (Chicago and London: Chicago University Press, 2018. ix + 234 pp. ISBN 978-0-226-49229-2.)

  • Kohrman, Matthew, Quan, Gan, Wennan, Liu and Proctor, Robert N.. Poisonous Pandas: Chinese Cigarette Manufacturing in Critical Historical Perspectives. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. xi + 309 pp. $25.95. ISBN 978-1-5036-0447-6.)

  • Koss, Daniel. Where the Party Rules: The Rank and File of China's Communist State. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 391 pp. ISBN 978-1-108-43073-9.)

  • Lam, Ling Hon. The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xiii + 339 pp. $60.00; £47.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18794-7.)

  • Lee, Francis L. F. and Chan, Joseph M.. Media and Protest Logics in the Digital Era: The Umbrella Movement in Hong Kong. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix + 263 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-19-085678-6.)

  • Lin, Juren and Yuxi, Xie, edited by Grove, Linda. A Century of Change in a Chinese Village: The Crisis of the Countryside. (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018. xliii + 269 pp. ISBN 978-1-5381-1235-9.)

  • Lin, Yi-min. Dancing with the Devil: The Political Economy of Privitization in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. x + 272 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-068283-5.)

  • Liu, Zhenyun (trans. Goldblatt, Howard and Lin, Sylvia Li-Chun. Someone to Talk to. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2018. ix + 376 pp. $27.95; £17. 99. ISBN 978-0-8223-7083-3.)

  • Maags, Christina and Svensson, Marina (eds.). Chinese Heritage in the Making: Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations. (Amsterdam University Press, 2018. 298 pp. ISBN 978-94-6298-369-4.)

  • Markley, Charlene. The Battle for Fortune: State-led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. xvii + 321 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-1967-7.)

  • Meijer, Hugo. Trading with the Enemy: The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 [2016]. xvii + 391 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-088917-3.)

  • Minzner, Carl. End of An Era: How China's Authoritarian Revival is Undermining its Rise. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xxii + 255 pp. £19.99. ISBN 978-0-19-067208-9.)

  • Ng, Kwai Hang, and He, Xin. Embedded Courts: Judicial Decision-Making in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. ix + 251 pp. £85.00. ISBN 978-1-108-42049-5.)

  • Rahav, Shakhar. The Rise of Political Intellectuals in Modern China: May Fourth Societies and the Roots of Mass-Party Politics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 [2015]. xv + 235 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-088501-4.)

  • Roberts, Margaret E. Censored: Distraction and Diversion inside China's Great Firewall. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2018. xii + 271 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-69117886-8.)

  • Roberts, Rosemary, and Li, Li (eds.). The Making and Remaking on China's “Red Classics”: Politics, Aesthetics and Mass Culture. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018. xix + 199 pp. $60.00; £49.95. ISBN 978-988-8390-89-2.)

  • Sha, Heila. Care and Ageing in North-West China. (Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2017. xv + 307 pp. ISBN 978-3-643-90874-2.)

  • Shi, Xia. At Home in the World: Women and Charity in Late Qing and Early Republican China. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. ix + 274 pp. $60.00; £49.95. ISBN 978-0-231-18560-8.)

  • Songster, E. Elena. Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. xii + 249 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-19-939367-1.)

  • St André, James. Translating China and Cross-Identity Performance. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2018. x + 287 pp. $68.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-6987-8.)

  • Thai, Philip. China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842–1965. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. xxiv + 380 pp. $60.00; £47.00. ISBN 978-0-231-18584-4.)

  • Tythacott, Louise (ed.). Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. (Routledge, 2018. xiii + 172 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-08055-3.)

  • Vermander, Benoît, Hingley, Liz and Zhang, Liang. Shanghai Sacred: The Religious Landscape of a Global City. (Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2018. xix + 255 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-74166-0.)

  • Wang, Di. The Teahouse under Socialism: The Decline and Renewal of Public Life in Chengdu, 1950–2000. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2018. xi + 311 pp. ISBN 978-1-5017-1549-5.)

  • Wang, Di. Violence and Order on the Chengdu Plain: The Story of a Secret Brotherhood in Rural China, 1939–1949. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. xiv + 260 pp. ISBN 978-1-5036-0530-5

  • Wasserstrom, Jeffrey N. and Cunningham, Maura Elizabeth. China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (3rd edition). (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ix + 204 pp. $16.95. ISBN 978-0-19-065908-0.)

  • Welland, Sasha Su-Ling. Experimental Beijing: Gender and Globalization in Chinese Contemporary Art. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018. xix + 337 pp. $27.95; £21.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6943-1.)

  • Yeh, Yueh-yu Emilie (ed.). Kaleidoscopic Histories: Early Film Culture in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Republican China. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2018. ix + 354 pp. £29.50. ISBN 978-0-472-05372-8.)