August–October 2024

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 late-imperial, modern and contemporary China. The list below includes notifications of publication emailed by publishers.

• Baker, Mark. Pivot of China: Spatial Politics and Inequality in Modern Zhengzhou. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. £47.95. ISBN 9780674293816.)

• Chen, Yixin. When Food Became Scarce: How Chinese Peasants Survived the Great Leap Forward Famine. (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2024. 354 pp. $56.95. ISBN 9781501776380.)

• Chiang, Howard and Shih, Shu-mei (eds.). Sinophone Studies Across Disciplines: A Reader. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. $45.00; £38.00. ISBN 9780231208635.)

• Chou, Catherine Lila, and Harrison, Mark. Revolutionary Taiwan: Making Nationhood in a Changing World Order. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2024. 222 pp. $39.99. ISBN 9781638573227.)

• Chow, Yiu Fai, de Kloet, Jeroen and Schmidt, Leonie. It's My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong. (Cham: Springer, 2024. 230 pp. £89.99 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 978-981-99-6709-4.)

• Copper, John F. Taiwan's Presidents: Portraits of the Majestic Six. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 242 pp. £36.99. ISBN 9781032697901.)

• Dai, Yaoyao, and Liuqu, Luwei Rose. Wolf Warrior Diplomacy and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2024. 106 pp. $105.00; £81.00. ISBN 9781666914054.)

• Dutton, Michael. The Book of Politics: China in Theory. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2024. 440 pp. $31.00. ISBN 9781478030195.)

• Elleman, Bruce A. The ABCs of Cold War History: Anglo-America, Bloc Soviétique, China, 1919–1994. (London: Anthem Press, 2024. 100 pp. £14.99; $19.99. ISBN 9781839992278.)

• Fang, Yu Hu. Good Wife, Wise Mother: Educating Han Taiwanese Girls under Japanese Rule. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2024. 304 pp. $32.00. ISBN 9780295752648.)

• Gao, Wenshu, and Jie, Cheng. Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor, Volume 8. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €115.00. 152 pp. ISBN 9789004693254.)

• Greenhalgh, Susan. Soda Science: Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 352 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9780226834733.)

• Hizi, Gil (ed.). Self-Development Ethics and Politics in China Today: A Keyword Approach. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 314 pp. €136.00. ISBN 9789463723992.)

• Hong, Xuping. A Brief History of Chinese Buddhism and Buddhist Thought. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €170.00. ISBN 9789004693166.)

• Jiang, Jiehong. The Conformed Body: Contemporary Art in China. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. 260 pp. €139.00; $151.00. ISBN 9789004537422.)

• Jost, Tyler. Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. £29.99. ISBN 9781009307222.)

• Lam, Wai-man, Lui, Percy Luen-tim, Wong, Wilson (eds.). Contemporary Hong Kong Government and Politics (3rd edition). (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 468 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888842872.)

• Lau, Dorothy. Celebrity Activism and Philanthropy in Asia: Toward a Cosmopolitical Imaginary. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 160 pp. €103.99. ISBN 9789048557066.)

• Li, Hongshan. Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold War. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 488 pp. $37.00; £30.00. ISBN 9780231207058.)

• Li, Ji. Negotiating Legality: Chinese Companies in the US Legal System. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. 270 pp. £95.00. ISBN 9781108845229.)

• Li, Wai-yee. Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature. (Leiden: Brill, 2024. €139.00; $151.00. ISBN 9789004693371.)

• Liu, Lizhi. From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-Commerce in China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2024. 328 pp. $120.00; £100.00. ISBN 9780691254098.)

• Mao, Jingyu. Intimacy as a Lens on Work and Migration: Experiences of Ethnic Performers in Southwest China. (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2024. 168 pp. £79.99. ISBN 9781529225853.)

• Mastro, Oriana Skylar. Upstart: How China Became a Great Power. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 336 pp. £22.99. ISBN 9780197695067.)

• Merkel-Hess, Kate. Women and Their Warlords: Domesticating Militarism in Modern China. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 264 pp. $45.00. ISBN 9780226834306.)

• Naftali, Orna. Mobilising China's One-Child Generation: Education, Nationalism and Youth Militarisation in the PRC. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024. 232 pp. £85.00. ISBN 9781399519410.)

• Paulès, Xavier (trans. Lightfoot, Lindsay). The Republic of China: 1912 to 1949. (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2023. 368 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9781509552573.)

• Pia, Andrea E. Cutting the Mass Line: Water, Politics, and Climate in Southwest China. (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2024. 344 pp. £41.50. ISBN 9781421448848.)

• Previato, Tommaso (ed). Fear, Heterodoxy, and Crime in Traditional China (Leiden: Brill, 2024. xix + 340 pp. €115.00. ISBN 9789004688230.)

• Pritzker, Sonya E. Learning to Love: Intimacy and the Discourse of Development in China. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024. 310 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780472056866.)

• Rudd, Kevin. Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 624 pp. £26.99. ISBN 9780197766033.)

• Sayers, Sean. The Making of a Marxist Philosopher: A Memoir. (London and New York: Routledge, 2024. 210 pp. £35.99. ISBN 9781032827452.)

• Schultheiss, Christian. Ocean Governance and Conflict in the East and South China Sea: Negotiating Natural Resources, Institutions and Power. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 382 pp. €141.00. ISBN 9789463728997.)

• Shih, Chih-yu. Relations and Roles in China's Internationalism: Rediscovering Confucianism in a Pluriversal World. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 323 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438498874.)

• Suettinger, Robert L. The Conscience of the Party: Hu Yaobang, China's Communist Reformer. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 488 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780674272804.)

• Sun, Shao-cheng. Hedging the China Threat: US-Taiwan Security Relations Since 1949. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2024. 373 pp. $125.00. ISBN 9781685859961.)

• Thompson, Alexander. British Law and Governance in Treaty Port China 1842–1927: Consuls, Courts and Colonial Subjects. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2024. 180 pp. €104.00. ISBN 9789463720397.)

• Vortherms, Samantha A. Manipulating Authoritarian Citizenship: Security, Development, and Local Membership in China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2024. 296 pp. $75.00. ISBN 9781503640184.)

• Wakeman, Rosemary. The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918–1941. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2024. 264 pp. $40.00. ISBN 9780226834184.)

• Wang, Hui (edited by Hill), Michael Gibbs. The Rise of Modern Chinese Thought. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2024. 1088 pp. £62.95. ISBN 9780674046764.)

• Wang, Yuan. The Railpolitik: Leadership and Agency in Sino-African Infrastructure Development. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 288 pp. $115.00; £90.00. ISBN 9780198873037.)

• Yep, Ray. Man in a Hurry: Murray MacLehose and Colonial Autonomy in Hong Kong. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 216 pp. HK$295.00. ISBN 9789888842926.)

• Yuen, Kwok-Yung. My Life in Medicine: A Hong Kong Journey. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2024. 268 pp. $25.00. ISBN 9789888842940.)

• Zhao, Tingyang. The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain. (New York: SUNY Press, 2024. 162 pp. $99.00. ISBN 9781438498966.)

• Zhao, Xinyang. Digital Immersive Art in China: Rejuvenation and Cultural Presence. (London: Anthem Press, 2024. 200 pp. £80.00; $110.00. ISBN 9781839993039.)

• Zweig, David. The War for Chinese Talent in America: The Politics of Technology and Knowledge in Sino-US Relations. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 200 pp. $18.00. ISBN 9781952636493.)