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The China Quarterly , Volume 265 , March 2026 , pp. 287 - 289
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© SOAS University of London, 2026. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of SOAS University of London.

October–December 2025

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.

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Brooks, Charlotte. The Moys of New York and Shanghai: One Family’s Extraordinary Journey Through War and Revolution. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. 392 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780520409552.)10.1525/9780520409569CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Cai, Cuirong. Cyber Governance in China: Balancing State Centrism and Collaborative Dynamics. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 284 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781032846828.)Google Scholar
Cai, Jingmeng. China’s Anti-monopoly Law in the Digital Era: How China Tames the Digital Behemoth. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 184 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781041103097.)Google Scholar
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Gong, Weila. Implementing a Low-Carbon Future: Climate Leadership in Chinese Cities. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2026. 160 pp. £64.00. ISBN 9780197757420.)Google Scholar
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Guo, Chen. Digital Media and the Daily Lives of China’s Senior Citizens. (London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 198 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781041018728.)Google Scholar
Gustafsson, Björn, and Yang, Xiuna (eds.). Handbook on Inequality in China. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025. 492 pp. £230.00. ISBN 9781035317790.)10.4337/9781035317806CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hearn, Adrian. Food System Intermediaries: Bonding and Bridging in China, Latin America, and Australia. (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2025. 248 pp. $65.00. ISBN 9780262553513.)10.7551/mitpress/15141.001.0001CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Hunzeker, Michael A., and Christopher, Mark A.. America’s Taiwan Dilemma: Allies’ Reactions and the Stakes for US Reputation. (Amherst, NY: Cambria Press, 2025. 232 pp. $39.99. ISBN 9781638573531.)Google Scholar
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Iqbal, Iftekhar. The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2025. 272 pp. $28.00. ISBN 9781503644946.)10.1515/9781503644953CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jia, Ruixue, Li, Hongbin and Cousineau, Claire. The Highest Exam: How the Gaokao Shapes China. (Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2025. $29.95; £24.95. ISBN 9780674295391.)Google Scholar
Le, Lin. China’s Conservative Turn: The Origins of Xi Jinping’s New Era. (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2025. 256 pp. $110.00. ISBN 9798896160120.)10.1515/9798896160137CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Li, Ling. Governance of a Party-state: Corruption, Law, and the Modus Operandi of the Chinese Communist Party. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 358 pp. £110.00. ISBN 9781009275002.)10.1017/9781009275033CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Li, Wai-yee (trans and ed.). The Confucius Chronicles: A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2025. 368 pp. $35.00; £28.00. ISBN. 9780231214834.)Google Scholar
Lin, Jian, Wang, Wilfred Yang and Sun, Ping. Chinese Platforms: A Critical Introduction. (Oxford: Polity Press, 2025. 219 pp. £17.99. ISBN 9781509559183.)Google Scholar
Liu, Jieyu. Embedded Generations: Family Life and Social Change in Contemporary China. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2025. 288 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780691258409.)Google Scholar
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Lu, Lerong. Towards Financial Superpower: China’s Financial Industry and Its Road to Internationalization. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 272 pp. £84.00. ISBN 9780198948537.)10.1093/9780198948568.001.0001CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Muscolino, Micah S. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2025. 280 pp. £173.50. ISBN 9780295753997.)10.1515/9780295753997CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Pei, Minxin. The Broken China Dream: How Reform Revived Totalitarianism. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2026. 344 pp. $29.95; £25.00. ISBN 9780691223339.)Google Scholar
Pollio, Andrea. Silicon Elsewhere: Nairobi, Global China, and the Promise of Techno-capital. (Oakland: University of California Press, 2026. 256 pp. $34.95; £30.00 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9780520413085.)10.1525/luminos.262CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Qian, Jiwei. Governing China’s Digital Transformation: Industrial Policy, Regulatory Governance, and Innovation. (London and New York: Routledge, 2025. 186 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781032386584.)10.4324/9781003347088CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Qu, Yuanyuan. Becoming Digital Citizens: Disability, ICTs, and Citizenship in Contemporary China. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. 240 pp. £64.00. ISBN 9780197774823.)10.1093/9780197774854.001.0001CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Salmenkari, Taru. Global Ideas, Local Adaptations: Chinese Activism and the Will to Make Civil Society. (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2025. 324 pp. £115.00. ISBN 9781035316670.)10.4337/9781035316687CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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Song, Chenyang. Nationalist and Popular Culture Practices on Social Media. A Digital Ethnography of Chinese Online Fandom Nationalists. New York: Columbia University Press [Transcript Publishing], 2025. 240 pp. $55.00. ISBN 9783837679267.)Google Scholar
Song, Ligang, and Zhou, Yixiao (eds). The Great Energy Transformation in China. (Canberra: ANU Press, 2025. 320 pp. $79.95 [also available Open Access]. ISBN 9781760467210.)10.22459/GETC.2025CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Steen, Andreas, Jones, Andrew F., and Lau, Frederick C. (eds.). China Sounds Across Borders: Migration, Mobility, and Modernity. (Hong Kong: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2025. 420 pp. $50.00. ISBN 9789882373860.)Google Scholar
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Tsang, Eileen Yuk-ha. Unlocking the Red Closet: Gay Male Sex Workers in China. (New York: NYU Press, 2025. 240 pp. $30.00. ISBN 9781479821228.)10.18574/nyu/9781479821242CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Vermeeren, Laura. Ink Studies: Everyday Practices of Calligraphy in Contemporary China. (Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2025. 228 pp. $34.00. ISBN 9789813252974.)Google Scholar
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Wang, Dan. Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. (London: Penguin, 2025. 288 pp. £25.00. ISBN 9780241729175.)Google Scholar
Wang, Peng, and Lin, Wanlin. Extralegal Governance: The Social Order of Illegal Markets in China. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 228 pp. £28.00. ISBN 9781009622141.)10.1017/9781009622158CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wu, Yinghui. Playing with Plays: Drama and Early Modern Chinese Media Ecologies. (Leiden: Brill, 2025. 250 pp. €109.00; $125.00. ISBN 9789004714328.)10.1163/9789004731295CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Zhan, Hu. Family Change and Family Policies in Contemporary China: Traditions and Transcendence. (London and New York: Routledge, 2026. 90 pp. £145.00. ISBN 9781032916583.)Google Scholar
Zhang, Gaoheng. Italian Dumplings and Chinese Pizzas: Transcultural Food Mobilities. (Fordham University Press, 2025. 240 pp. $35.00. ISBN 9781531512170.)Google Scholar