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The China Quarterly , Volume 200 , December 2009 , pp. 1123 - 1125
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Copyright © The China Quarterly 2009

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.

Anonymous (translated by Hanan, Patrick), Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Hangzhou. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiii + 328 pp. £16.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14822-1.)Benton, Gregor, and Chun, Lin (eds.), Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, viii + 199 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-415-49330-7.)Brown, Archie, The Rise and Fall of Communism. (London: The Bodley Head, 2009. xv + 720 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-224-07879-5.)Burman, Edward, China and Iran: Parallel History, Future Threat? (Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009. 224 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978-0-7524-4854-1.)Chan, Sui-jeung, East River Column: Hong Kong Guerillas in the Second World War and After. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xiii + 182 pp. $49.50. ISBN 978-962-209-850-3.)Chen, Xiaoming (ed.), Rising Shanghai: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global City. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxv + 267 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8166-5488-8.)Chiu, Stephen and Lui, Tai-Lok, Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xv + 184 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-0-415-22011-8.)Coe, Andrew, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii + 303 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-19-533107-3.)Crespi, John A., Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. x + 228 pp. $47.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3365-7.)Cunningham, Philip J., Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. xi + 290 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-7425-6672-9.)Erickson, Andrew, Goldstein, Lyle J., and Lord, Carnes (eds.), China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective. (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009. xxxvi + 485 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-242-3.)Gao, James Z., Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949). (Lanham, MD, Toronto and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2009. l + 531 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978-0-8108-4930.)Gillepsie, John and Peerenboom, Randall (eds.), Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalization. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 326 pp. £29.99. ISBN 978-0-415-49003-0.)Grasso, June, Corrin, Jay and Kort, Michael, Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to World Power (Fourth Edition). (Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. ix + 337 pp. $35.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-2391-1.)Ho, Loretta Wing Wah, Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 180 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55022-2.)Holmes, Leslie, Communism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 155 pp. £7.99. ISBN 978-0-19-955154-5.)Hurvitz, Leon (translated by), Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma (The Lotus Sūtra). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxvii + 384 pp. $29.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-231-14895-5.)Jeffreys, Elaine (ed.), China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 178 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-54744-4.)Jiang, Jin, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009. xix + 340 pp. £30.99. ISBN 978-0-295-98844-3.)Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. xviii + 402 pp. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-423-6.)Keay, John, China: A History. (New York: Basic Books, 2009. xix + 578, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-01580-1.)Keith, Ronald C., China from the Inside Out: Fitting the People's Republic into the World. (London and New York: Pluto Press, 2009. xv + 192 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7453-2854-6.)Kim, Hyun Jin, Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China. (London: Duckworth, 2009. vi + 217 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3807-1.)Li, Minjiang (ed.), Soft Power: China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2009. vii + 275 pp. £49.95, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4.)Li, Xiaobing, A History of the Modern Chinese Army. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009 [2007], xvi + 413 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-8131-9240-6.)Liu, Guoguang, Wang, Luolin and Jinwen, Li (eds.), The China Economy Yearbook. Volume 1: Analysis and Forecast of China's Economy. (Leiden: Brill, 2008, xxviii + 451 pp. €99.00; US$148.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15638-8.)Raine, Sarah, China's African Challenges. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009.x + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55693-4.)Ross, Robert S., Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power and Politics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viii + 331 pp. £23.99. ISBN 978-0-415-77786-5.)Ru, Xin, Xueyi, Lu and Peilin, Li (eds.), The China Society Yearbook (2006): China's Development, Analysis and Forecast. (Leiden: Brill, 2007, xiii + 343 pp. €99.00; US$148.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15637-1.)Sanders, Robert, and Yao, Nora, Fundamental Spoken Chinese. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xix + 400 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3156-1.)Santoro, Michael A., China 2020: How Western Business Can – and Should – Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xiii + 162 pp. $21.95; £11.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4695-5.)Schwartz, Jonathan and Shieh, Shawn (eds.), State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 196 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45224-3.)Sieff, Martin, Shifting Superpowers: The New and Emerging Relationship between the United States, China, and India. (Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 2010, viii + 207 pp. $26.00. ISBN 978-1-935308-21-8.)Silbergeld, Jerome, Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art. (London: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-12208-4.)Solinger, Dorothy J., States’ Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xiv + 245 pp. £30.50; $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8014-4777-8.)Su, Minzi, China's Rural Development Policy: Exploring the “New Socialist Countryside.” (Boulder and London: FirstForumPress, 2009. xvi + 312 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978-1-935049-06-7.)Su, Xiaobo and Teo, Peggy, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. ix + 208 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-47808-3.)Teiser, Stephen F. and Stone, Jacqueline I. (eds.), Readings of the Lotus Sūtra. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 284 pp. $24.50; £17.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14289-2.)Tsai, Shih-shan Henry, Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. (Armonk, NY, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. xiii + 265 pp. £23.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-23-29-4.)White, Lynn T., Political Booms: Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines. (New Jersey, London and Singapore: Word Scientific, 2009. xx + 727 pp. £51.00. ISBN 978-981-283-682-3.)Wilson, Scott, Remade in China: Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 290 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538831-2.)Yang, Guobin, The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xv + 302 pp. $29.50; £20.50 ISBN 978-0-231-14420-9.)Yao, Nora, Lee, Margaret, and Sanders, Robert, Fundamental Written Chinese (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xxii + 362 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3157-8.)Yuan, I. (ed.), Cross-Strait at the Turning Point: Institution, Identity and Democracy. (Taipei: National Cheng-chih University [Institute of International Relations], 2008, 524 pp. NT$600.00. ISBN 978-986-01-6976-8.)Zhidong, Zheng (ed.), Guojia rentong yu liang'an weilai (National Identity and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations). (Macau: Universidade de Macau, 2009. xxviii + 397 pp. ISBN 978-99937-943-5-6.)Zhu, Ying, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxii + 177 pp. £22.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49220-1.)

References

Anonymous (translated by Hanan, Patrick), Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Hangzhou. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xiii + 328 pp. £16.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14822-1.)Google Scholar
Benton, Gregor, and Chun, Lin (eds.), Was Mao Really a Monster? The Academic Response to Chang and Halliday's Mao: The Unknown Story. (London and New York: Routledge, 2010, viii + 199 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-415-49330-7.)Google Scholar
Brown, Archie, The Rise and Fall of Communism. (London: The Bodley Head, 2009. xv + 720 pp. £25.00. ISBN 978-0-224-07879-5.)Google Scholar
Burman, Edward, China and Iran: Parallel History, Future Threat? (Stroud, Gloucestershire: The History Press, 2009. 224 pp. £12.99. ISBN 978-0-7524-4854-1.)Google Scholar
Chan, Sui-jeung, East River Column: Hong Kong Guerillas in the Second World War and After. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2009. xiii + 182 pp. $49.50. ISBN 978-962-209-850-3.)Google Scholar
Chen, Xiaoming (ed.), Rising Shanghai: State Power and Local Transformations in a Global City. (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009. xxxv + 267 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-8166-5488-8.)Google Scholar
Chiu, Stephen and Lui, Tai-Lok, Hong Kong: Becoming a Chinese Global City. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xv + 184 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-0-415-22011-8.)Google Scholar
Coe, Andrew, Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii + 303 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-19-533107-3.)Google Scholar
Crespi, John A., Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China. (Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2009. x + 228 pp. $47.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3365-7.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cunningham, Philip J., Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989. (Lanham, Boulder, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Rowman and Littlefield, 2009. xi + 290 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-7425-6672-9.)Google Scholar
Erickson, Andrew, Goldstein, Lyle J., and Lord, Carnes (eds.), China Goes to Sea: Maritime Transformation in Comparative Historical Perspective. (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2009. xxxvi + 485 pp. $49.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-242-3.)Google Scholar
Gao, James Z., Historical Dictionary of Modern China (1800–1949). (Lanham, MD, Toronto and Plymouth, UK: The Scarecrow Press, 2009. l + 531 pp. $125.00. ISBN 978-0-8108-4930.)Google Scholar
Gillepsie, John and Peerenboom, Randall (eds.), Regulation in Asia: Pushing Back on Globalization. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 326 pp. £29.99. ISBN 978-0-415-49003-0.)Google Scholar
Grasso, June, Corrin, Jay and Kort, Michael, Modernization and Revolution in China: From the Opium Wars to World Power (Fourth Edition). (Armonk, NY and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. ix + 337 pp. $35.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-2391-1.)Google Scholar
Ho, Loretta Wing Wah, Gay and Lesbian Subculture in Urban China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xii + 180 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-55022-2.)Google Scholar
Holmes, Leslie, Communism: A Very Short Introduction. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 155 pp. £7.99. ISBN 978-0-19-955154-5.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hurvitz, Leon (translated by), Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma (The Lotus Sūtra). (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xxvii + 384 pp. $29.50; £20.50. ISBN 978-0-231-14895-5.)Google Scholar
Jeffreys, Elaine (ed.), China's Governmentalities: Governing Change, Changing Government. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. x + 178 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-54744-4.)Google Scholar
Jiang, Jin, Women Playing Men: Yue Opera and Social Change in Twentieth-Century Shanghai. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2009. xix + 340 pp. £30.99. ISBN 978-0-295-98844-3.)Google Scholar
Joiner, Lynne, Honorable Survivor: Mao's China, McCarthy's America, and the Persecution of John S. Service. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2009. xviii + 402 pp. $37.95. ISBN 978-1-59114-423-6.)Google Scholar
Keay, John, China: A History. (New York: Basic Books, 2009. xix + 578, $35.00, ISBN 978-0-465-01580-1.)Google Scholar
Keith, Ronald C., China from the Inside Out: Fitting the People's Republic into the World. (London and New York: Pluto Press, 2009. xv + 192 pp. $29.95. ISBN 978-0-7453-2854-6.)Google Scholar
Kim, Hyun Jin, Ethnicity and Foreigners in Ancient Greece and China. (London: Duckworth, 2009. vi + 217 pp. £50.00. ISBN 978-0-7156-3807-1.)Google Scholar
Li, Minjiang (ed.), Soft Power: China's Emerging Strategy in International Politics. (Lanham, Boulder, CO, New York, Toronto and Plymouth: Lexington Books, 2009. vii + 275 pp. £49.95, ISBN 978-0-7391-3377-4.)Google Scholar
Li, Xiaobing, A History of the Modern Chinese Army. (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2009 [2007], xvi + 413 pp. $27.95. ISBN 978-0-8131-9240-6.)Google Scholar
Liu, Guoguang, Wang, Luolin and Jinwen, Li (eds.), The China Economy Yearbook. Volume 1: Analysis and Forecast of China's Economy. (Leiden: Brill, 2008, xxviii + 451 pp. €99.00; US$148.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15638-8.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Raine, Sarah, China's African Challenges. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009.x + 270 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-55693-4.)Google Scholar
Ross, Robert S., Chinese Security Policy: Structure, Power and Politics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. viii + 331 pp. £23.99. ISBN 978-0-415-77786-5.)Google Scholar
Ru, Xin, Xueyi, Lu and Peilin, Li (eds.), The China Society Yearbook (2006): China's Development, Analysis and Forecast. (Leiden: Brill, 2007, xiii + 343 pp. €99.00; US$148.00. ISBN 978-90-04-15637-1.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sanders, Robert, and Yao, Nora, Fundamental Spoken Chinese. (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xix + 400 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3156-1.)Google Scholar
Santoro, Michael A., China 2020: How Western Business Can – and Should – Influence Social and Political Change in the Coming Decade. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xiii + 162 pp. $21.95; £11.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-4695-5.)Google Scholar
Schwartz, Jonathan and Shieh, Shawn (eds.), State and Society Responses to Social Welfare Needs in China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xvi + 196 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-45224-3.)Google Scholar
Sieff, Martin, Shifting Superpowers: The New and Emerging Relationship between the United States, China, and India. (Washington, DC: CATO Institute, 2010, viii + 207 pp. $26.00. ISBN 978-1-935308-21-8.)Google Scholar
Silbergeld, Jerome, Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art. (London: Yale University Press, 2009. 304 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-0-300-12208-4.)Google Scholar
Solinger, Dorothy J., States’ Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2009. xiv + 245 pp. £30.50; $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8014-4777-8.)Google Scholar
Su, Minzi, China's Rural Development Policy: Exploring the “New Socialist Countryside.” (Boulder and London: FirstForumPress, 2009. xvi + 312 pp. $69.95. ISBN 978-1-935049-06-7.)Google Scholar
Su, Xiaobo and Teo, Peggy, The Politics of Heritage Tourism in China: A View from Lijiang (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. ix + 208 pp. £75.00. ISBN 978-0-415-47808-3.)Google Scholar
Teiser, Stephen F. and Stone, Jacqueline I. (eds.), Readings of the Lotus Sūtra. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xi + 284 pp. $24.50; £17.00. ISBN 978-0-231-14289-2.)Google Scholar
Tsai, Shih-shan Henry, Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. (Armonk, NY, and London: M.E. Sharpe, 2009. xiii + 265 pp. £23.95. ISBN 978-0-7656-23-29-4.)Google Scholar
White, Lynn T., Political Booms: Local Money and Power in Taiwan, East China, Thailand, and the Philippines. (New Jersey, London and Singapore: Word Scientific, 2009. xx + 727 pp. £51.00. ISBN 978-981-283-682-3.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wilson, Scott, Remade in China: Foreign Investors and Institutional Change in China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiv + 290 pp. £40.00. ISBN 978-0-19-538831-2.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Yang, Guobin, The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2009. xv + 302 pp. $29.50; £20.50 ISBN 978-0-231-14420-9.)Google Scholar
Yao, Nora, Lee, Margaret, and Sanders, Robert, Fundamental Written Chinese (Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2009. xxii + 362 pp. $39.00. ISBN 978-0-8248-3157-8.)Google Scholar
Yuan, I. (ed.), Cross-Strait at the Turning Point: Institution, Identity and Democracy. (Taipei: National Cheng-chih University [Institute of International Relations], 2008, 524 pp. NT$600.00. ISBN 978-986-01-6976-8.)Google Scholar
Zhidong, Zheng (ed.), Guojia rentong yu liang'an weilai (National Identity and the Future of Cross-Strait Relations). (Macau: Universidade de Macau, 2009. xxviii + 397 pp. ISBN 978-99937-943-5-6.)Google Scholar
Zhu, Ying, Television in Post-Reform China: Serial Dramas, Confucian Leadership and the Global Television Market. (London and New York: Routledge, 2009. xxii + 177 pp. £22.00. ISBN 978-0-415-49220-1.)Google Scholar