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.

• Andors, Stephen (ed.). Workers and Workplaces in Revolutionary China (reprint). (London and New York: Routledge [1974], 2016. xxxiii + 403 pp. £110.00. ISBN 978-1-138-19197-6.)

• Bernards, Brian. Writing the South Seas: Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. xv + 270 pp. £32.50. ISBN 978-0-295-99501-4.)

• Bregnbaek, Susanne. Fragile Elite: The Dilemmas of China's University Students. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. ix + 172 pp. £17.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9778-8.)

• Brindley, Erica Fox. Ancient China and the Yue: Perceptions and Identities on the Southern Frontier, c. 400 BCE--50 CE. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxii + 279 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-08478-0.)

• Brown, Kerry (ed.). Berkshire Dictionary of Chinese Biography (Volume 4). (Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2016. xxi + 617 pp. ISBN 978-1-61472-900-6.)

• Cheek, Timothy. The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xxiii + 370 pp. £24.99; $39.99. ISBN 978-1-107-64319-2.)

• Cheng, Joseph Yu-shek. China's Foreign Policy: Challenges and Prospects. (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2016. xi + 631 pp. $158.00; £104.00. ISBN 978-981-4719-02-5.)

• Cliff, Roger. China's Military Power: Assessing Current and Future Capabilities. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xvi + 362 pp. £59.99; $99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-10354-2.)

• Craft, Stephen G. American Justice in Taiwan: The 1957 Riots and Cold War Foreign Policy. (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2016. xvii + 267 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-0-8131-6635-3

• de Kloet, Jeroen, and Scheen, Lena (eds.). Spectacle and the City: Chinese Urbanities in Art and Popular Culture. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2013. 261 pp. ISBN 978-90-8964-445-9.)

• Ferrara, Mark S. Palace of Ashes: China and the Decline of American Higher Education. (Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2015. x + 206 pp. £19.50. ISBN 978-1-4214-1799-8.)

• Fingar, Thomas (ed.). The New Great Game: China and South and Central Asia in the Era of Reform. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xxii + 337 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9763-4.)

• Garver, John W. China's Quest: The History of the Foreign Relations of the People's Republic of China. (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xviii + 868 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-026105-4.)

• Goldstein, Lyle J. Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US–China Rivalry. (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2015. vi + 387 pp. £21.00. ISBN 978-1-62616-160-3.)

• Green, December, and Luehrmann, Laura. Contentious Politics in Brazil and China: Beyond Regime. (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2016. xvi + 364 pp. £24.95. ISBN 978-0-8133-5004-2.)

• Guo, Zhonghua, and Guo, Sujian. Theorizing Chinese Citizenship. (Lanham, Boulder, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2015. xii + 246 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-1669-3.)

• Habich, Sabrina. Dams, Migrants and Authoritarianism in China: The Local State in Yunnan. (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2015. xiii + 174 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-93493-1.)

• Hang, Xing. Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia: The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 332 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-12184-3.)

• Hassid, Jonathan. China's Unruly Journalists: How Committed Professionals Are Changing the People's Republic. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xxi + 179 pp. ISBN 978-0-138-95574-5.)

• Hayes, Anna and Clarke, Michael (eds.). Inside Xinjiang: Space, Place and Power in China's Muslim Far Northwest. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xx + 267 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-78079-8.)

• He, Xi, and Faure, David (eds.). The Fisher Folk of Late Imperial and Modern China: An Historical Anthropology of Boat-and-Shed Living. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xix + 212 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-92406-2.)

• Hillman, Ben, and Tuttle, Gray (eds.). Ethnic Conflict and Protests in Tibet and Xinjiang. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. vi + 268 pp. $60.00; £41.50. ISBN 978-0-231-16998-1.)

• Holdstock, Nick. China's Forgotten People: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State. (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2015. xi + 273 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-1-98453-140-9.)

• Huang, Xueli, and Zhu, Ying. Managing Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment: From Entry Strategy to Sustainable Development in Australia. (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. xiv + 180 pp. £14.00. ISBN 978-1-137-39458-3.)

• Hulme, Alison (ed.). The Changing Landscape of China's Consumerism. (Oxford: Chandos Publishing, 2016. xxxi + 221 pp. ISBM 978-1-84334-761-3.)

• Jenco, Leigh. Changing Referents: Learning across Space and Time in China and the West. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. viii + 283 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-026382-9.)

• Johansson, Perry. The Libidinal Economy of China: Gender, Nationalism, and Consumer Culture. (Lanham, Boulder, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2015. vii + 143 pp. ISBN 978-0-7391-9973-2.)

• Karl, Rebecca E., and Zhong, Xueping (ed. and trans.). Cai Xiang: Revolution and Its Narratives: China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2016. xxix + 450 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-8223-6069-8.)

• Liang, Bin, and Lu, Hong (eds.). The Death Penalty in China: Policy, Practice, and Reform. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xiv + 362 pp. £24.00. ISBN 978-0-231-17007-9.)

• Jianqiang, Liu (trans. Rowen, Ian, Hui, Cyrus K. and Yeh, Emily T.). Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi. (Lanham, Boulder, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2015. xxi + 327 pp. £70.00. ISBN 978-0-7391-9973-2.)

• Lo, Sonny Shiu-Hing. The Politics of Controlling Organized Crime in Greater China. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xvii + 253 pp. ISBN 978-0-415-61956-1.)

• Lombardi, Domenico and Wang, Hongying (eds.). Enter the Dragon: China in the International Finance System. (Waterloo, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2015. xi + 427 pp. ISBN 978-1-928096-15-3.)

• Lufkin, Felicity. Folk Art and Modern Culture in Republican China. (Lanham, MD and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2016. xxxvi + 217 pp. £65.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-2628-9.)

• Manion, Melanie. Information for Autocrats: Representation in Chinese Local Congresses. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. xii + 189 pp. £59.99; $89.99. ISBN 978-1-107-63703-0.)

• Meijer, Hugo. Trading with the Enemy: The Making of US Export Control Policy toward the People's Republic of China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xvii + 391 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-027769-7.)

• Miller, J. Hillis. An Innocent Abroad. (Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2015. xxxi + 305 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-0-8101-6162-0.)

• Naftali, Orna. Children in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. xi + 231 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-8055-2.)

• Ngai, Pun. Migrant Labor in China. (London: Polity, 2016. xi + 204 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-7175-8.)

• Oyen, Meredith. The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of US–China Relations in the Cold War. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. x + 308 pp. $45.00. ISBN 978-1-5017-0014-9.)

• Ping, Jian (ed.). Dreams and Reality: New Era of China's Reform. (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific, 2016. x + 230 pp. $98.00; £65.00. ISBN 978-981-4651-96-7.)

• Ping, Jonathan H. and Brett McCormick. China's Strategic Priorities . (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xviii + 158 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-0-415-70734-3.)

• Qi, Dongtao. The Taiwan Independence Movement In and Out of Power. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2016. xxi + 258 pp. £73.00; $110.00. ISBN 978-981-4689-42-7.)

• Ramsay, Guy. Chinese Stories of Drug Addiction: Beyond the Opium Dens. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. 131 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-94629-3.)

• Rohlf, Gregory. Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Qinghai in the 1950s. (Lanham, MD and Oxford: Lexington Books, 2016. v + 299 pp. ISBN 978-1-4985-1952-6.)

• Saunders, Phillip C., and Scobell, Andrew (eds.). PLA Influence on China's National Security Policymaking. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2015. x + 346 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9625-5.)

• Schonebaum, Andrew. Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2016. viii + 283 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99518-2.)

• Schubert, Gunter (ed.). Taiwan and the “China Impact”: Challenges and Opportunities. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xviii + 316 pp. ISBN 978-0-138-94592-0.)

• Scobell, Andrew, Ding, Arthur S., Suanders, Phillip C., and Harold, Scott W.. The People's Liberation Army and Contingency Planning in China. (Washington DC: National Defense University Press, 2016. x + 371 pp. ISBN 978-0-9968-2490-3.)

• Shapiro, Judith. China's Environmental Challenges (second edition). (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity, 2016. xxiv + 228 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-07456-9864-9.)

• Shih, Chih-Yu (ed.). Sinology in Post-Communist States: Views from the Czech Republic, Mongolia, Poland, and Russia. (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2016. xxvii + 277 pp. $55.00. ISBN 978-962-996-694-2.)

• Steinmüller, Hans, and Brandtstädter, Susanne (eds.). Irony, Cynicism and the Chinese State. (London and New York: Routledge, 2015. xviii + 193 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-94314-8.)

• Swider, Sarah. Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat. (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2015. xviii + 187 pp. $24.95. ISBN 978-0-8014-5693-0.)

• Tang, Wenfang. Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. xiii + 220 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-020579-9.)

• Tong, Jingrong. Investigative Journalism: Environmental Problems and Modernisation in China. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. xiv + 204 pp. ISBN 978-1-137-40666-8.)

• Trappel, René. China's Agrarian Transition: Peasants, Property, and Politics. (Lanham, Boulder, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2016. xi + 203 pp. £54.95. ISBN 978-0-7391-9936-7.)

• Uretsky, Elanah. Occupational Hazards: Sex, Business, and HIV in Post-Mao China. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2016. xv + 262 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9753-5.)

• Wang, Ke. Minzu zhuyi yu jindai Zhong Ri guanxi: “minzu guojia” “bianjiang” yu lishi renshi (Nationalism and Modern Sino-Japanese Relations: Nation-state, Borderland and Historical Knowledge) . (Hong Kong: The Chinese University Press, 2015. xxi + 402 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-962-996-686-7.)

• Womack, Brantly, and Hao, Yufan (eds.). Rethinking the Triangle: Washington–Beijing–Taipei (Macau: University of Macau; Singapore: World Scientific, 2016. xxiv + 236 pp. ISBN 978-981-4713-12-2.)

• Wu, Jinting. Fabricating an Educational Miracle: Compulsory Schooling Meets Ethnic Rural Development in Southwest China. (New York: SUNY Press, 2016. vii + 268 pp. ISBN 978-1-4384-6037-6.)

• Wu, Ka-Ming. Reinventing Chinese Tradition: The Cultural Politics of Late Socialism. (Urbana, Chicago and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2015. xv + 186 pp. $25.00. ISBN 978-0-252-08140-8.)

• Yang, Dennis T. The Pursuit of the Chinese Dream in America: Chinese Undergraduate Students at American Universities. (Lanham, Boulder, NY and London: Lexington Books, 2016. xi + 161 pp. £52.95. ISBN 978-1-4985-2168-0.)

• Yang, Fang. Faked in China: Nation Branding, Counterfeit Culture and Globalization. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. xvi + 284 pp. £21.99. ISBN 978-0-253-01846-5.)

• Yang, Guorong (trans. Meyers, Chad Austin). The Mutual Cultivation of the Self and Things: A Contemporary Chinese Philosophy of the Meaning of Being. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. xvi + 304 pp. £33.00. ISBN 978-0-253-02111-3.)

• Yang, Jing, and Mukhopadhaya, Pundarik. China's War against the Many Faces of Poverty: Towards a New Long March. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xxi + 465 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-138-81960-3.)

• Yu, Keping. Democracy in China: Challenge or Opportunity. (Hackensack, NJ: World Scientific 2016. vi + 235 pp. $95.00; £63.00. ISBN 978-981-4641-52-4.)

• Zhang, Baohui. Revolutions as Organizational Change: The Communist Party and Peasant Communities in South China, 1926–1934. (Hong Kong University Press, 2015. x + 182 pp. £34.50; $50.00. ISBN 978-988-8208-39-5.)

• Ziporyn, Brook A. Emptiness and Omnipresence: An Essential Introduction to Tiantai Buddhism. (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2016. xi + 307 pp. ISBN 978-0-253-02186-1.)

• Zweig, David, and Hao, Yufan (eds.). Sino-US Energy Triangles: Resource Diplomacy under Hegemony. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xxiii + 283 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-138-77808-5.)