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Books Received

(October–December 2016)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2017

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The China Quarterly , Volume 229 , March 2017 , pp. 265 - 266
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Copyright © SOAS University of London 2017 

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.

  • Amstel, Adrian van. Chinese Character Dictionary: A New Approach to Arranging, Explaining and Looking up Chinese Characters. Self-published, 2016. 590 pp. ISBN 978-1-49101-107-2.)

  • Asen, Daniel. Death in Beijing: Murder and Forensic Science in Republican China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ix + 258 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-12606-0.)

  • Batt, Herbert, and Zitner, Sheldon (eds.). The Flowering of Modern Chinese Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from the Republican Period. (Montreal and Kingston, London and Chicago: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2016. xvii + 430 pp. £27.99. ISBN 978-0-7735-4766-7.)

  • Braütigam, Deborah. Will Africa Feed China? (New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. xvii + 222 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978-0-1993-9685-6.)

  • Bryson, Megan. Goddess on the Frontier: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in Southwest China. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2017. xii + 246 pp. £52.00. ISBN 978-0-8047-9954-6.)

  • Chen, Jing. Useful Complaints: How Petitions Assist Decentralized Authoritarianism in China. (Lanham, Boulder, New York and London: Lexington Books, 2016. xv + 186 pp. £54.95. ISBN 978-1-4985-3452-9.)

  • Chen, Xiaomei. Staging Chinese Revolution: Theater, Film, and the Afterlives of Propaganda. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 363 pp. £44.00. ISBN 978-0-231-16638-4.)

  • Chu, Ming-chin Monique and Kastner, Scott L. (ed.). Globalization and Security Relations across the Taiwan Strait: In the Shadow of China. (Routledge, 2016. xxiii + 239 pp. £28.00. ISBN 978-1-138-23669-1.)

  • Cole, Bernard D. China's Quest for Great Power: Ships, Oil, and Foreign Policy. (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2016. xiii + 304 pp. $34.95. ISBN 978-1-61251-838-1.)

  • de Kloet, Jeroen, and Fung, Anthony. Youth Cultures in China. (Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017. xiii + 229 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-745-679181.)

  • Dreyer, June Teufel. Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun: Sino-Japanese Relations, Past and Present. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. xi + 452 pp. £22.99. ISBN 978-0-1953-7566-4.)

  • Gui, Rong, Gönül, Hacer Zekiye and Xiaoyan, Zhang (eds.). Hui Muslims in China. (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2016. 199 pp. ISBN 978-94-6270-066-6.)

  • He, Alex. The Dragon's Footprints: China in the Global Economic Governance System under the G20 Framework. (Waterloo, ON, Canada: Centre for International Governance Innovation, 2016. xii + 308 pp. ISBN 978-1-928096-23-8.)

  • Hung, Wu. Zooming In: Histories of Photography in China. (London: Reaktion Books, 2016. 398 pp. £35.00. ISBN 978-1-78023-599-8.)

  • Jankowiak, William R. and Moore, Robert L.. Family Life in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2016. x + 219 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-745-68555-7.)

  • Johnson, Kay Ann. China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy. (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2016. xii + 218 pp. $22.50. ISBN 978-0-226-35251-0.)

  • Jun, Ma. The Economics of Air Pollution in China: Achieving Better and Cleaner Growth. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. ix + 300 pp. $65.00; £48.00. ISBN 978-0-231-17494-7.)

  • Kam, Louie (ed.). Changing Chinese Masculinities: From Imperial Pillars of State to Global Real Men. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. ix + 250 pp. $65.00; £48.00. ISBN 978-988-8208-56-2.)

  • Kim, Hongkyung (trans.). The Analects of Dasan, Vol. 1: A Korean Syncretic Reading. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. x + 260 pp. ISBN 978-0-19-062499-6.)

  • Kim, Kwangmin. Borderland Capitalism: Turkestan Produce, Qing Silver, and the Birth of an Eastern Market. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. vii + 299 pp. ISBN 978-0-8047-9923-2.)

  • Lee, Ji-Young. China's Hegemony: Four Hundred Years of East Asian Domination. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016. xii + 286 pp. ISBN 978-0-231-17974-4.)

  • Madokoro, Laura. Elusive Refuge: Chinese Migrants in the Cold War. (Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2016. x + 330 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-97151-6.)

  • Naughton, Barry and Tsai, Kellee S. (eds.). State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xvii + 272 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-08106-2.)

  • Nordin, Astrid H. M. China's International Relations and Harmonious World: Time, Space and Multiplicity in World Politics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2016. xvi + 202 pp. £90.00. ISBN 978-1-138-94487-9.)

  • Panigrahi, Devendra Nath. The Himalayas and India-China Relations. (New York and Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2016. xiii + 159 pp. ISBN 978-1-138-19117-4.)

  • Pieke, Frank N. Knowing China: A Twenty-First Century Guide. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. ix + 226 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-58761-8.)

  • Qiu, Jack Linchuan. Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition. (Urbana, IL, and Springfield: University of Illinois Press, 2016. vii + 230 pp. ISBN 978-0-252-08212-2.)

  • Riley, Nancy. Population in China. (Cambridge, UK, and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2017. xi + 237 pp. £15.99. ISBN 978-0-7456-8864-0.)

  • Santon, Gonçalo and Harrell, Stevan. Transforming Patriarchy: Chinese Families in the Twenty-First Century. (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2017. ix + 301 pp. ISBN 978-0-295-99982-1.)

  • Shan, Gi-Wook and Sneider, Daniel. Divergent Memories: Opinion Leaders and the Asia-Pacific War. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. xi + 356 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-0-8047-9970-6.)

  • Shokdung, (trans. Akester, Matthew). The Division of Heaven and Earth: On Tibet's Peaceful Revolution. (London: Hurst, 2016. xliii + 162 pp. £14.99. ISBN 978-1-84904-677-0.)

  • Siu, Helen F. Tracing China: A Forty-Year Ethnographic Journey. (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2016. xiv + 560 pp. $75.00; £56. 00. ISBN 978-988-8083-73-2.)

  • Stapleton, Kristin. 1920s China and Ba Jin's Family. (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. ix + 280 pp. £20.99. ISBN 978-1-503-60106-2.)

  • Tao, Xingzhi (trans. Linying, Ji, Xin, Zhang, Nan, Xin and Lijuan, Chen). The Transformation of Chinese Traditional Education: Selected Papers by Tao Xingzhi on Education. (Leiden: Brill, 2016. xi + 156 pp. ISBN 978-90-04-30284-6.)

  • Thaxton, Ralph A. Force and Contention in Contemporary China: Memory and Resistance in the Long Shadow of the Catastrophic Past. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xxii + 468 pp. ISBN 978-1-107-53982-2.)

  • Xie, Bo. Comparative Insolvency Law: The Pre-pack Approach in Corporate Rescue. (Cheltenham, UK, and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2016. xv + 311 pp. £95.00. ISBN 978-1-78100-737-2.)

  • Yang, Lijun and Wei, Shan (eds.). Governing Society in Contemporary China. (Singapore: World Scientific, 2016. xx + 204 pp. £88.00. ISBN 978-981-4618-58-8.)

  • Zhang, Lin. The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. xix + 318 pp. £64. 99; £99.99. ISBN 978-1-107-15598-5.)